“The Weaver's Answer” by Family

"The Weaver's Answer" opens Family Entertainment, the 1969 album by the British progressive rock band Family, and it grew into the song that defined them on stage. Guitarist Charlie Whitney and singer Roger Chapman, the group's two leaders, wrote it and road-tested it hard before it ever reached a studio; they performed it for BBC Radio 1 in July 1968, and the broadcast went out that September. Glyn Johns produced the album take.

As Family songs go it's a plain-spoken one: an old man begs the great weaver to show him his past laid out in the pattern of the tapestry. It became their most popular stage number, and when Family played their final concert on 13 October 1973, it was the last song of the night.

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