Son Volt is an alt country group formed by Jay Farrar in 1994 after the breakup of the band Uncle Tupelo. and is often considered to be the closest continuance of Uncle Tupelo's alt-country/Americana sound and musical legacy.The group formed after Farrar met Jim and Dave Boquist during the final Uncle Tupelo tour. Together with former Uncle Tupelo drummer Mike Heidorn, the band rehearsed and re...
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I don't know if it's by design or not, but around each new Wilco release, there seems to be a new Son Volt album -- which is OK with me. This song "Roll On" has a nice feel. Give it a few spins and let it sink in. Others have posted "Down to the Wire" -- which I like, too. Could we have another "Trace" on our hands? Looking forward to the whole enchilada on July 7.
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A great band like Uncle Tupelo splits and out comes Wilco and Son Volt. Kinda makes you wish that would happen more often.
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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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I just got a copy of this fine album- already had The Search and this one is even better. These guys are excellent.A top weekend all roundas i also picked up A Hundred Highways-Johnny Cash, Follow The Lights-Ryan Adams and the new Pete Murray album- And it's a long weekend here so the fun isn't over yet....
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I'm not sure if Pandora is a sensitive subject here on MOG (given that it could be seen as competition), but I'm going to open the box, so to speak.About a year and a half ago, I began using Pandora and promptly fell in love with it. It took time to train it to give me what I wanted (enjoying the Rolling Stones does NOT mean I want to hear Ratt), but my "Chaos Cowboy Rock" station almost immed...
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Okay, so I've already broken my vow to post every day for a week. In my defense, I've been super busy with work, wedding, and other stuff that all vie for my time. I'm still trying to get my posting rate up, though, so bear with me.One of the things I do when I have a minute at work (aside from browsing the MOG) is obsess about the current primary race.Back before the race began, when I was l...
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Son Volt will return this summer with a new album and new label. "American Central Dust," the band's sixth full-length and its first since signing with Rounder Records, will be released on July 7. The band will be hitting the road in July touring the west coast. This will be a double-bill with The Cowboy [...]
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There is a timely resilience to this record, and Son Volt deliver it with energy, but they just don't take that earnest country feel as far as it could go.
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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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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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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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