Jay Farrar

Son Volt announces new album “Electro Melodier”

May 14, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0

Son Volt, one of the most influential Americana bands of their generation, have announced the July 30th release of their tenth studio album, ‘Electro Melodier’ which lands via Transmit Sound and our feline friends at Thirty […]

AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Number 8 – Uncle Tupelo “No Depression”

March 10, 2021 Clint West 1

So, it’s day three and we have arrived at number 8 in our writers’ picks. A seminal album without question, but does it live up to its folkloric status in the pantheon of great americana albums? […]

Classic Americana Albums: Son Volt “Trace” (Warner Bros, 1995)

August 5, 2020 Tim Newby 1

When Jay Farrar sings, “May the wind blow your troubles away,” on ‘Windfall’, about a long-distance drive to escape one’s problems and the opening track of Son Volt’s 1995 debut album, ‘Trace’, it came across like […]

Songs for the apocalypse: Jay Farrar “Station to Station”

April 16, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Being an americana site we have to mention our own version of the Oasis vs Blur war, Son Volt vs Wilco (admittedly not quite the same war as Oasis and Blur were never in the same […]

AmericanA to Z – Uncle Tupelo

October 10, 2019 Steven Rafferty 0

There’s no way we could make our first trip through the alphabet without a tip of the hat to the band that some folks point to as the start of this thing we call Americana. I’m […]