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Son Volt - trace (1995)

Track listing:
  1. Windfall
  2. Live Free 3:13
  3. Tear-Stained Eye 4:21
  4. Route 3:57
  5. Ten Second News 3:57
  6. Drown 3:20
  7. Loose String 3:48
  8. Out of the Picture 3:50
  9. Catching On 4:02
  10. Too Early 4:29
  11. Mystifies Me 4:11

Notes


Jay Farrar always provided the darkest, grittiest moments in Uncle Tupelo, so it comes as no surprise that Son Volt is a rawer record than A.M., the first album by Wilco, a band led by his former partner Jeff Tweedy. Throughout Son Volt's debut Trace, the group reworks classic honky tonk and rock & roll, adding a desparate, determined edge to their performances. Even when they rock out, their is a palpable sense of melancholy to Farrar's voice, which lends a poignancy to the music. Trace isn't a great step forward from Tupelo's last album, the lovely Anodyne, but it is a fine continuation of the ideas Farrar has pursued over the course of his career.