Bailey's Ballads

[danasgoodstuff]

This Derek Bailey album has been in my music room player for months now so that when I'm done with whatever else I'm listening to this automatically comes up next as a braceing palette cleanser.  Kinda reminds my of John Fahey's the New Possibility that way, anyone else hear it this way?

[clifford_thornton]

It is a palette cleanser and hey, you wouldn't be the first to notice a connection between Bailey and Fahey (I'd say Henry Kaiser found it in the 1970s). 

[danasgoodstuff]

Just got Bailey's Standards which is like the first stab at Ballads...more thoughts later.

[clifford_thornton]

they're both essential. I find it hard to think of a Derek Bailey album that isn't worth hearing at the least, and I find myself gravitating to his work (specifically soli) more and more over the years. The mood doesn't matter - he's just so beautiful.