Music
As performed by Family and produced by John Gilbert and Glyn Johns on Family Entertainment, The Weaver's Answer is a stately, polite rock song slowly and quietly opened by Whitney's guitar and Ric Grech's violin. The drums of Rob Townsend come into the mix to propel the song at a faster tempo, with Grech's bass providing a strong undercurrent and Chapman's vocals giving a desperate voice to the old man's sentiments. The music gets heavier and more intense while remaining understated, slipping into an instrumental break punctuated by Jim King's brooding saxophone and Whitney's biting guitar. The song slowly continues to build into intensity, with Chapman's bleating vibrato becoming inescapable and unsettling, up to the revelation of the old man's death. With that the song slips back to where it began, with Grech's violin more prevalent as it represents the old man's passage into the next world.
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