Bill Fay returns with the third album in the celebrated second phase of his recording career. A prime Fay song is a deceptively simple thing which carries more emotional weight than its concision and brevity might imply. There are ten of these musical haikus on Countless Branches, as pointed and as poignant as anything he's ever recorded. For decades now - it's almost 50 years since he cut his classic albums "Bill Fay" and "Time of the Last Persecution" - songs like these have been Fay's ambassadors helping rave reviews and endorsements from the likes of Jim O'Rourke (Tortoise) and Jeff Tweedy (Wilco) which led to a huge revival of interest in his music. He had continued to make music almost every day in the intervening decades. For Countless Branches he's completed new toplines over some of his cache of backing tracks, most of them 20 to 40 years old. 

 

TRACKLISTING:  01. IN HUMAN HANDS 02. HOW LONG, HOW LONG 03. YOUR LITTLE FACE 04. SALT OF THE EARTH 05. I WILL REMAIN HERE 06. FILLED WITH WONDER ONCE AGAIN 07. TIME'S GOING SOMEWHERE 08. LOVE WILL REMAIN 09. COUNTLESS BRANCHES 10. ONE LIFE