Jad Fair & Yo La Tengo - Strange But True [Green]

Jad Fair & Yo La Tengo - Strange But True [Green]In the '90s, Jad Fair had five favorite bands and songwriters: Daniel Johnston, The Pastels, Sonic Youth, Teenage Fanclub, and Yo La Tengo. It's a good list, sure, but what's 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

A deluxe limited edition reissue of the 1970 masterpiece by UK prog rock heroes featuring their classic line-up on what most agree is the band's best album

Flood and John Parish and originally released in Feburary 2011

Annie's music stands head and shoulders above a very crowded music scene with her unqiuely catchy songwriting and vivacious personality

and All Their Severity" (2000)

fast riffs and slow epic parts

joyous sound that made Wham

the songs are a mix of new compositions and re-workings of tunes John Lee Hooker had previously recorded

hit it off

Kenny Grohowski and several members of King Crimson

She killed

and it spun out the hit title track as well as "Let's Get It Up" and "Put the Finger on You

collected in the Tower of Ivory compilation tape - but all the while