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California singer Frank Fairfield is a young performer who seems entirely of another time and place, both in what he plays and how passionately he plays it. It was barely more than a year ago when Fairfield told me he wasn't much of a songwriter, insisting that he tinkered around with melodies and tunes from time to time, but that he wasn't one of the greats--you know, someone like Stephen Foster, he said. Fairfield floored me with every note of his 2009 debut, a collection of perfectly ecstatic and desolate arrangements for songs sometimes more than a century old.
But Fairfield's second album, Out on the Open West, includes a number of originals, and they're mostly pretty great extensions of the histories he's long been translating.
California singer Frank Fairfield is a young performer who seems entirely of another time and place, both in what he plays and how passionately he plays it. It was barely more than a year ago when Fairfield told me he wasn't much of a songwriter, insisting that he tinkered around with melodies and tunes from time to time, but that he wasn't one of the greats--you know, someone like Stephen Foster, he said. Fairfield floored me with every note of his 2009 debut, a collection of perfectly ecstatic and desolate arrangements for songs sometimes more than a century old.
But Fairfield's second album, Out on the Open West, includes a number of originals, and they're mostly pretty great extensions of the histories he's long been translating.
- 5/13/2011
- by Grayson Currin
- ifc.com
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