Blog: Consequence Of Sound

Bill Fay is hardly a household name. In fact, he's hardly a name at all. And yet, his music has resonated with some rather important musicians. Wilco's Jeff Tweedy claims no records have meant more in his life than Fay's, and Okkervil River's Will Sheff calls Fay "rock music's conscience". So why has Fay gone virtually unnoticed by the music community at large? The story goes that Fay released two records in the early 1970s on Deram (19702s Bill Fay and 19712s cult classic Time of the Last Persecution, which featured some of [...]