Son Volt - Straightaways
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Artist: Son VoltEdition: Music CD
Published: 1997
CD Release Date: 1997-04-22
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Caryatid Easy
- Back Into Your World
- Picking Up The Signal
- Left A Slide
- Creosote
- Cemetery Savior
- Last Minute Shakedown
- Been Set Free
- No More Parades
- Way Down Watson
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Free Music Review: great from start to finish
Hit: 5 Stars
Just like Son Volt's first CD, this one is packed with great roots rock. Although the songs tent to be a little more mellow, the writing is great, and the instrumental parts blend perfectly with Jay Farrar's vocals. Lovers of alt.country or roots rock or americana or whatever you want to call it ought to give this one a listen.
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When Jeff Tweedy and Jay Farrar, his former partner in Uncle Tupelo, split up in 1994, the common wisdom was that Tweedy was the melodic and optimistic Paul McCartney of the team, while Farrar was the cathartic and moody John Lennon. That analogy seemed to stand up when Wilco's debut disc A.M. was sweet and tuneful, while the first album by Farrar's Son Volt, Trace, was angst-ridden country-rock. Tweedy transcended his pigeonhole with the diverse, ambitious Being There, but Farrar remains trapped in his on Son Volt's follow-up Straightaways, a more laid-back, understated version of Trace. Farrar does one thing really well, and that is his use of a gravelly baritone and suspended guitar chords to capture the exhaustion and desperation of a man at the end of his rope. Unfortunately, he tends to do it over and over and over again. --Geoffrey HimesAlternative Rock Music CDs
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