Description
Following the death of Gerry Marsden of Gerry and the Pacemakers, Hay went to his basement, picked up a guitar, and started playing the chords of perennial classic, “Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying.”
As a result, this project evolved much like a mixtape, all classic tracks rendered in ways that effectively mimic the originals. Hay’s voice, slides easily into each of these selections, most of his choices don’t stray from the originals as opposed to a reimagined cover. For example, it’s hard to tell his take on the Faces “Ooh LaLa” from the seminal version. So too, Hay’s revisit to “Can’t Find My Way Home” is practically a carbon copy of Blind Faith’s original. When songs such as “Waterloo Sunset,” “Norwegian Wood,” “Many Rivers to Cross,” “Wichita Lineman,” and “Norwegian Wood” are involved… the odds are heavily stacked in favor of success. In this case, one gets the impression that Hay was simply indulging his fondness for these songs and was content to simply share them by reproducing the arrangements without tampering with the template.
