Foy Vance

The seventh album from Foy Vance, The Wake marks the completion of a decades-long journey defined by tireless soul-searching and life-altering revelation. While playing a gig on the Spanish island of Lanzarote in January 1999, Vance experienced a moment of unprecedented transcendence onstage, then learned the next morning that his father had suffered a fatal heart attack. Overcome by grief and a galvanizing clarity, he resolved to create seven albums informed by the loss of his father — a traveling preacher who moved their family to the American South when Vance was a baby and who taught him to play guitar early in childhood.