{"id":974513,"date":"2020-01-18T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=939595"},"modified":"2020-01-18T08:00:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T15:00:31","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-bill-fay-your-little-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-bill-fay-your-little-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Bill Fay, \u2018Your Little Face\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/bill-fay-syntk.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Everyone loves an elusive singer-songwriter, and U.K. musician <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bill-fay\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bill-fay\" data-tag=\"bill-fay\">Bill Fay<\/a> is a prime example. He started making music in the Sixties as a college student, leading to a brief stint on an imprint of Decca Records, during which he released two albums: a self-titled debut in 1970, followed in 1971 by <em>Time of the Last Persecution<\/em>, an indictment of the Vietnam War, Jim Crow, and other modern horrors. After that, his label began to reject new music, and Fay <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/01\/15\/arts\/music\/bill-fay-countless-branches.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">stepped away<\/a> from the music industry. He married, raised a family, and worked normal jobs: a groundskeeper, a fish packer at a supermarket. For decades, he wrote new songs in solitude. Then, about 10 years ago, after his older work was rediscovered by fans like Wilco\u2019s Jeff Tweedy, he returned.<\/p>\n<p>Fay\u2019s third album since then, <em>Countless Branches<\/em>, is best enjoyed as a whole, but \u201cYour Little Face\u201d is the immediate stand-out. Over slow, honeyed chords, he forgoes the cosmos for love: \u201cIn the furthest reaches of outer space\/Slowly, but surely, a globe was made\/But the sprawling sky and the rolling sea\/Ain\u2019t nothing compared to the eyes that I see on your little face.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a lot of space in the song. It\u2019s not burdened by excess instrumentation, instead propelled forward by Fay\u2019s aged-wine voice, light percussion, piano, and subtle strings. The song, like the album, is steeped in melancholy, but not the sharp depression of youth \u2014 the knowing sadness of years spent living.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bill-fay-your-little-face-939595\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone loves an elusive singer-songwriter, and U.K. musician Bill Fay is a prime example. He started making music in the Sixties as a college student, leading to a brief stint on an imprint of Decca Records, during which he released two albums: a self-titled debut in 1970, followed in 1971 by Time of the Last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-09 16:58:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}