More - Jay Farrar Quotes

After doing the solo records, I was playing a lot of acoustic shows and just began missing the band dynamic. So getting back to Son Volt was, for me, finishing unfinished business.

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I'm glad we were able to do that [tribute] for Alejandro. That's sort of a last positive effort that we all contributed to. I think it was just a good way to go out.

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I think I just sort of felt like with the original incarnation of Son Volt we'd hit a wall, ... I didn't want to necessarily be the person who had to crack the whip to try to push people in a certain direction that they didn't want to go.

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Having gone through a period of making solo records and performing with just one other guy, Mark Spencer, I really missed the idea of playing in a group dynamic. We're doing a set that is focused on the new album, but we'll be doing other Son Volt material as well -- and we could be going back to Uncle Tupelo, too.

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[Earlier Son Volt releases possessed a more composed, controlled atmosphere, which showed off Farrar's songwriting chops well, but the new one has a more pervasive sense of urgency, not just lyrically but also musically. There's an immediacy that's palpable.] We were kind of a new configuration, so there's an edge there, a spontaneity that's basically good, ... Maybe we were aware that this was something special that never happened before?

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 Atmosphere

but at this point it seems kind of inevitable or unstoppable.

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You're sort of shaped by your environment in a way. I don't know if it affects every songwriter in the same way, but there must be something to it. If you're living in a busy city environment, you're going to write differently than if you're sitting in a Thoreau cabin by a lake somewhere.

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 Environment

We checked it out and talked to some people around there. They didn't know much about him. They said he was a communist.

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 People

My son loves [Guthrie's] 'Deportee,' ... and he's going through a lot of those old songs. I was exposed to his music early on as a kid through my folks, and now I'm coming back to it full circle with my kids reading his books and listening to his CDs. He's got all that kid-oriented material.

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I really wanted to get back to playing electric guitar and being in a band, and regaining that feeling that you get, that sense of camaraderie that goes along with it.

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