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PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:26 pm 
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Son Volt's myspace page is streaming 4 new tunes from "The Search", which comes out tommorrow. Love the horns.

Even Better...Jason Isbel is on tour as the opener on some of shows. Including the one that I'm going to at Pearl Street in Northampton MA.

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Great combo. Diggin' what I've heard on The Search quite a bit.


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I listened to the whole album yesterday, and agree that its pretty damn good.

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I listened to the whole album yesterday, and agree that its pretty damn good.


Probably my favorite Farrar since Trace.

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ElGuapo Wrote:
Son Volt's myspace page is streaming 4 new tunes from "The Search", which comes out tommorrow. Love the horns.

Even Better...Jason Isbel is on tour as the opener on some of shows..



Damn. I listened to the songs on their website. I'll be picking this up when it comes out tomorrow.

This guy just keeps on movin on and has really put together a ridiculously good body of work.

Some super fan on here really needs to put together a mix of Farrar's best work that includes everthing. (Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt, Solo stuff, Gob Iron, etc) I'm sure he's worked with other folks.



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Some super fan on here really needs to put together a mix of Farrar's best work that includes everthing. (Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt, Solo stuff, Gob Iron, etc) I'm sure he's worked with other folks.


I vote for billyg and mcaputo to do a collaborative two volume affair.

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I vote for billyg and mcaputo to do a collaborative two volume affair.

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As mentioned in another thread, Best Buy will have a version of this with 3 bonus tracks.


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Holy crap, this is good shit.

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March 30, The Fillmore, Magnolia Electric opening.

Best since Trace...? Will live with this awhile before I say that... but J.F. was one of those who could have faded away, and continues to put out some of america's best music.

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Yail Bloor Wrote:
Rick Derris Wrote:

Some super fan on here really needs to put together a mix of Farrar's best work that includes everthing. (Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt, Solo stuff, Gob Iron, etc) I'm sure he's worked with other folks.


I vote for billyg and mcaputo to do a collaborative two volume affair.


I'm not a completist for any artist so I know I don't own everything he's done. I think Caputo is the board's biggest Farrar fan and I generally agree with his taste in Farrar down to probably being the only other obner that thinks Anondyne is easily the worst UT album. He's the natural one to take on this project if he's got the time.

I've also still gots disc 2 of country mong to wrap up. That said, I did look to see what I don't own by farrar and found that if i ignore eps and live albums, I was only missing one solo album and one son volt album, both of which I found cheap on half. I just ordered 'em so if caputo doesn't get around to doing this, I could maybe take this on in a couple of months after i've digested these and the new one if you guys haven't lost interest in the interim.


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I still need to hear more of this band. I don't even know why Farrar is supposed to be so good. Someone make the case.

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Looks like Best Buy's going to have it for nineninetynine.

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I still need to hear more of this band. I don't even know why Farrar is supposed to be so good. Someone make the case.


The following obviously only covers his earlier work, but it's a good start. Son Volt's first album Trace exemplifies everything that I like about UT's sound and is easily my favorite album by Farrar and/or Tweedy (only Being There comes close). The underline is mine and added for emphasis.
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Uncle Tupelo wasn't the first band to merge the soulful twang of country music with the passionate roar of punk rock (that honor would probably go to either the Meat Puppets, Jason & the Scorchers, or X), but in 1989 the Minutemen-meets-Gram Parson clatter of Uncle Tupelo's debut album, No Depression, took what some then called "cowpunk" in a new and decidedly different direction. From the start, Uncle Tupelo's music was smart, muscular, emotionally compelling, and played the punk and country sides of the band's musical personality for all the heartfelt sincerity that marked the best music of both genres -- and refused to make a joke out of either. Making music that people didn't simply enjoy, but believed in, Uncle Tupelo was the sort of band that attracted an unusually devoted fan following, and while it's inaccurate to trace the entire 1990s "alt-country" movement back to the group, one could certainly argue that Uncle Tupelo was as crucial to that scene as Black Flag was to '80s punk. Though a combination of hard work, fine music, and setting a peerless example of honesty and integrity, Uncle Tupelo blazed a trail that dozens of other fine bands would follow... While Jay Farrar's songwriting tended to dominate the group's albums, this compilation strives to give equal time to his then-partner Jeff Tweedy, most likely to make the disc equally appealing to new fans of Son Volt and Wilco, Farrar and Tweedy's post-UT groups... Whether picking quietly on the front porch or bashing their Les Pauls into submission, Uncle Tupelo serves up powerful, timeless, and joyous music on each of these 21 cuts. A splendid trip down memory lane for those who were there and a revelation for the uninitiated, 89/93: An Anthology offers tangible proof that Uncle Tupelo was a group that truly mattered -- and still matters nearly a decade after the bandmembers called it a day.


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Son Volt's first album Trace exemplifies everything that I like about UT's sound and is easily my favorite album by Farrar and/or Tweedy (only Being There comes close).


Seconded.

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Son Volt's first album Trace exemplifies everything that I like about UT's sound and is easily my favorite album by Farrar and/or Tweedy (only Summerteeth comes close).


Seconded.


Ditto.

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Son Volt's first album Trace exemplifies everything that I like about UT's sound and is easily my favorite album by Farrar and/or Tweedy (only Summerteeth comes close).


Seconded.


Ditto.


I love Summerteeth but it's a pop album to me. I like how Being There is elcetic yet still kind of raw. I know it's a little long and could stand to lose a few tracks, but if they would have listed those same expendable songs as "bonus tracks" everyone would jump for joy for them but that's another issue. There both great and it's kind of like chosing between your favorite two types of ice cream.

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Motherfucker. My local independent record shop didn't have this one or the new Ry Cooder. Fuckstix.

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Motherfucker. My local independent record shop didn't have this one or the new Ry Cooder. Fuckstix.


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i like what i have heard thus far with the new album (the search)

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Elvis Fu Wrote:
Motherfucker. My local independent record shop didn't have this one or the new Ry Cooder. Fuckstix.


annapolis lol


They generally aren't bad, but they said the shipment hadn't come in yet. I think I'm gonna go burn this Best Buy gift card I got from somewhere.

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molonger Wrote:
Elvis Fu Wrote:
Motherfucker. My local independent record shop didn't have this one or the new Ry Cooder. Fuckstix.


annapolis lol


Are you sure you're not a 12 year old girl bob?


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molonger Wrote:
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Motherfucker. My local independent record shop didn't have this one or the new Ry Cooder. Fuckstix.


annapolis lol


Are you sure you're not a 12 year old girl bob?


If I were, I'd be in the Guinness Book of World Records for largest cup size on a 12-year-old.

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Elvis Fu Wrote:
Motherfucker. My local independent record shop didn't have this one or the new Ry Cooder. Fuckstix.


There was very cool interview w/Ry Cooder on NPR this morning.

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Itunes has a 22-track version of the album.

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