(2018) Willard Grant Conspiracy - Untethered
Review:
There was no Willard Grant conspiracy and there was only one , baritone Robert Fisher being the single constant member of the collective from Boston, Massachusetts, and beyond. Like The Fall’s Mark E. Smith, he worked with multiple musicians – 30 in his case, compared with “The Fallen” running to 66 in 41 years – but unlike the sack-happy Mancunian, the ever-inclusive Fisher would say “If someone tells you they played on this, they probably did”.
All this, you will note, is written in the valedictory past tense because Fisher, musician and real estate agent, died of cancer on February 12 last year. And so, Untethered is his tenth and last album, made as he continued day job and night hobby through 2016. The tapes have been “dusted down and brought to life” by long-time compadre David Michael Curry with acoustic guitars and strings to the fore. Ironically, Fisher had often written of death, but now with his own fate determined, he echoes Johnny Cash’s last deeds, especially on the title track, ‘All We Have Left’ and ‘Saturday with Jane’. The closing ‘Trail’s End’ has no vocal, Fisher untethered at the last.
Tracklist:
01 - Hideous Beast.flac
02 - Do No Harm.flac
03 - All We Have Left.flac
04 - 26 Turns.flac
05 - Chasing Rabbits.flac
06 - Let the Storm Be Your Pilot.flac
07 - Love You Apart.flac
08 - Margaret On the Porch.flac
09 - Saturday with Jane.flac
10 - Two Step.flac
11 - I Could Not.flac
12 - Share the Load.flac
13 - Untethered.flac
14 - Trail's End.flac
Summary:
Country: USA
Genre: americana, indie-folk
Media Report:
Source : CD
Format : FLAC
Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : ~ 607-848 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
