Jazz Articles about Son Volt

Son Volt: Okemah And The Melody Of Riot - Deluxe Edition

by Doug Collette
November 3, 2018

Jay Farrar has hardly shown himself to be a self-promoter during the course of his career. Dating back to the alternative country band Uncle Tupelo through his ongoing solo efforts and intermittently leading the similarly-styled Son Volt, this taciturn man has preferred to make his statements almost solely through his music. An exception to his low profile mode was work on and publicizing of the 20th Anniversary Edition of the latter band's Trace (Rhino,2015). But the release of ...