(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

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Bit rate                         : ~ 607-848 Kbps

Channel(s)                       : 2 channels

Sampling rate                    : 44.1 KHz

Bit depth                        : 16 bits