Joe Fahey (no relation to John) from Minnesota is a seasoned performer who started playing in bands in 1979. This is his fourth album and his first since ‘Somnambulist Chaser’ in 2016.
All fifteen songs were recorded at home using the Garage Band app for the first time. The tracks were cleaned up with the help of guitarist and co-producer Dan Kowalke but they still have a nice rough-edged feel.
The mood of the artist on the record swings between stoned and/or garrulous. Tongue in cheek tunes like Mainline Suzie(With the Shaky Dentures) and Day Drinking With Dracula rub shoulders with stream of consciousness, conversational lyrics on tracks like Greetings from Jazzbury Park and Away.
Most songs reveal a fondness for classic psychedelic rock with scuzzy electric guitars to the fore although I Feel So Alone Now is an acoustic number that catches Fahey on an off day ”trying to keep the salt out of the wounds.”
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There’s political commentary too where the hell on earth of Dante’s Inferno is “just a mile down the road” and the unambiguous Fuck the Republicans explains who he thinks is primarily to blame for this state of affairs.
Overall, Fahey comes across as a decent, warm-hearted guy more concerned with keeping things real than putting on airs and graces.
Joe Fahey’s website
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