While Wilco has been etching out a niche as the American Radiohead, the other half of Uncle Tupelo, Jay Farrar, has quietly been putting together a solid alt. country career with Son Volt.Son Volt are returning on July 7th with American Central Dust, the band's 6th studio album. If you like your indie countryfied, then this record is probably aimed at you.Son Volt's websiteSon Volt's Myspace
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Well this is just a fascinating nugget of information: Son Volt's Jay Farrar has been picked by Nora Guthrie to write and record original music for another batch of unreleased Woody Guthrie lyrics.And Farrar has reached out to Anders Parker (the Varnaline front man who recorded a previous album of folk covers with Farrar under the name Gob Iron), Jim James of My Morning Jacket and Will Johnson of
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Son Volt will return in the summer with a new album, on a new label, and will tour the U.S. after that.
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Shockingly I actually don’t mind some country rock every now and again. Now remember it is country rock for a reason. I aint talken about that Garth Brooks bullshit. I am talking about the lines of Wilco, Drive By Truckers, Johnny Cash, Band Of Horses.The always reliable folks at Toolshed sent me over a new [...]
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Son Volt is returning with American Central Dust on July 7th, an album that will be “an epic lament for the heartland” according to the folks at Rounder. The official Son Volt site says the new album is reminiscent of “the melodic succinctness of the band’s debut album Trace”. Good news, as that album is one of the classics of the mid-90s alt country heyday and is by far the best thing F
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MUSIC NEWS - Son Volt have just announced their summer plans, and are gearing up for the release of their new album 'American Central Dust', out July 7 Rounder Records (order here), an appearance at the Rothbury festival in Rothbury, MI, and a co-headlining tour with the Cowboy Junkies; which begins July 8 in Denver, CO at the Ogden Theatre. Son Volt band leader, and former Uncle Tupelo...
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