LONG WAY HOME opens side two with a straightforward relaxed folk rock pop ambience and can’t go home and have things be the way they used to be lyric
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a true master of his craft whose perfectionism gave birth to some of the greatest music ever recorded
improvisations and tape experiments that sounded a little like a more chaotic version psychedelic folkies the Incredible String Band
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Jad Fair & Yo La Tengo - Strange But True LP (Mint Green) electronic LONG WAY HOME opens sideIn the 90s, Jad Fair had five favorite bands and songwriters: Daniel Johnston, The Pastels, Sonic Youth, Teenage Fanclub, and Yo La Tengo. Its a good list, sure, but whats most remarkable about it is that, in the course of a dozen years or so, Fair made music with all of them in one form or another. Jad Fair has been prolific for half a century now, long before the Internet could create a simultaneous and seemingly eternal archive of everything