Blog: TwentyFourBit

Having releasing two under-appreciated records in the '70s, Bill Fay's songwriting didn't fully get its due until 3 decades later when Jeff Tweedy performed a stirring cover of "Be Not So Fearful" in the Wilco documentary  I Am Trying to Break Your Heart . That said, a number of musicians in Tweedy's circle at the time - from YHF / Loose Fur  cohort Jim O'Rourke to Scott McCaughey and R.E.M.'s Peter Buck of the Minus 5 - were also singing praises, literally, for Fay's lost work. Okkervil River's Will Sheff has since followed suit , and now Fay [...]