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Billy Fox was the singer of the Mice, a punk band from Cleveland that went largely unnoticed. Fox reinvented himself with the single Bird Of The World (Scat, 1996) and established himself with Shelter from The Smoke (Cherry Pop, 1997) as a traditional singer-songwriter, singing melancholic provincial stories accompanied by his guitar.
The Byrds seep through in the innocent folk-rock of Over And Away She Goes and Way Way Down, while Dylans love ballads peek out in the lyrics of I'm Not Over Loving You. If these are his idols, Fox pays tribute above all to his roots, first with the archaic country of Appalachian Death Sigh and then with the minstrel-style folk of Singin' A Melody. Every second of this music is steeped in genuine emotion, though the recording, in this case, is perhaps a bit too "lo-fi."
Transit Byzantium (Spinart, 1998) collects material composed over six
years is more of the same acoustic, lo-fi pop.
She still released
Before I Went to Harvard
(2011) and
One Thought Revealed
(2012).
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