8/13/2023 0 Comments Son volt tear stained eye videoThough the new record is pretty strong, one could tell the audience was primed for some choice Farrar material from the past, and given the guy’s track record, it’s not an unreasonable request. He’s the only player I’ve ever seen able to wring a convincing pedal steel guitar sound from a conventional six stringer. This night, we got more than a rounded spoonful of songs from the latest record, all skillfully turned out by the hired hands in this version of Son Volt, especially CHRIS MASTERSON, who was absolutely stellar. the Stax/Volt horns of “”The Picture” (though sadly no horns were present at tonight’s show a harmonica was pressed into service, though it didn’t carry the same impact). Maybe this staid, even-keeled approach ultimately limited Farrar’s/SON VOLT’s overall audience, but the latest addition to his oeuvre, The Search, though not imbued with white-hot emotion, finds him resuscitating the Son Volt imprint as well as injecting some (shall we say?) outright fun cf. If you are looking for DAVID YOW-esque front man antics, look elsewhere. This personality trait has more than seeped in to (saturated?) his songwriting and delivery as well. If JEFF TWEEDY’s post-UNCLE TUPELO meteoric rise gets under JAY FARRAR’s skin, he does a good job of looking like he doesn’t give a damn, That said, you could drop an anvil on his toe and he might just stare back at you with the disaffected glance he’s perfected over the last 20 or so years.
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