Photo by John Cohen Death Cab for Cutie 's Ben Gibbard and Son Volt 's Jay Farrar have collaborated on a set of original tunes inspired by Jack Kerouac 's novel Big Sur , to be featured in an upcoming documentary on the author, titled One Fast Move Or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur . The two began working on the songs in 2007, using Kerouac's own prose from Big Sur for the songs' lyrics; the documentary and its soundtrack, featuring 12 songs from the musicians' collaboration, will [...]
Last month, we told you about a pretty nifty new collaboration between Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard and Son Volt's Jay Farrar. Basically, the two rock mainstays united after both being tapped to provide some musical contributions for an upcoming a documentary about American author/poet/painter Jack Kerouac. As Farrar explained in an interview with the Riverfront Times , things took off after the two hit the studio together. "I did work with Ben on this recording project, which started out as each of us contributing songs to a documentary about [...]
A Great Collection of Cover Songs: So, we don't do covers posts anywhere near as often as I would like - but that's due to the fact that there is so much great new, original material out there. We first ran one of these several months back and it was wildly popular. Thought this would be a nice way to kick off your weekend and share some interesting covers with our newer readers. There's nothing like great musicians paying respect and showing their love for the songs that get them through the day - the [...]
Just received this email so I'll post it in it's entirety to you my loyal reader. JAY FARRAR AND BENJAMIN GIBBARD JOIN FORCES FOR NEW ALBUM INSPIRED BY JACK KEROUAC'S BIG SUR ONE FAST MOVE OR I'M GONE: KEROUAC'S BIG SUR OUT OCT 20 ON F-STOP/ATLANTIC One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur, a new album featuring 12 original songs composed and performed by Jay Farrar of Son Volt and Benjamin Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie-with lyrics based on the prose of Jack Kerouac's landmark 1962 novel Big Sur-is set for [...]
Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive , Book Club When Death Cab for Cutie 's Ben Gibbard was invited to join Son Volt 's Jay Farrar for soundtrack work, originally he was just going to be a guest vocalist on a couple tunes. But the two artists, who had never met before, found an immediate spark and continued to work on the project over the next year and a half, when their individual schedules allowed for it. The resulting CD, 'One Fast [...]
Son Volt will play The Vogue this Saturday and we have a quick-and-dirty contest for TODAY ONLY! We are giving away five pairs of tickets to the show - one pair to five different winners. To get registered to win, leave your contact email in the comments section (click "Talk back to yo' mama"). We'll send out an email at the end of the work day to the winners. ------------------------------ repost ------------------------------ [...]
Unfortunately, my vacation has come to an end. I am, however, happy to be back home in Knoxville after having some fun in Cooperstown, Baltimore, and Washington D.C. last week. We went to the Baseball Hall of Fame, several of the Smithsonian museums, Baltimore's Inner Harbor, a brewery, a cider mill, and a handful of wineries. All in all, a fun and relaxing trip. Oddly, it was the first vacation I've taken in quite some time that didn't have some sort of musical bent to it. My wife and I usually plan our vacations around some concert or [...]
Wall Street Journal article. On Son Volt's latest album, "American Central Dust" (Rounder), we hear evidence of Jay Farrar's evolution as a composer. Compared with what he wrote for the band Uncle Tupelo's 1990 debut, "No Depression"—in which his words run together, fail to find a seat on the melody and never let the composition coalesce into a complete statement—the 12 songs on the new disc, Son Volt's eighth, are minimalism set to music . Cheers bonnerj
Last month we brought you news of Beck's latest project called the Record Club , where the musician planned on teaming up with whomever he could grab to head into the studio and record an album by an artist of his choice in one day. The initial installment brought us Mr. Hansen's take on the Velvet Underground's self-titled debut. For the second volume of the project, the alt-rocker has recruited Wilco - who stopped by his recording studio on their recent L.A.-swing to tackle Oar , the revered cult classic from former [...]
Wild Yaks - "River May Come" Wild Yaks - "Tomahawk" Wild Yaks - "Wish I Had A Whip" mp3s via Fader b/c our acct isn't working right now There is a good chance that after seeing the Wild Yaks live, we will be changed people. According to several very reputable [...]
Ben Gibbard is a musician from Bremerton, Washington who you probably know from Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service. Jay Farrar is a musician from Millstadt, Illinois who you probably known from Son Volt and Uncle Tupelo. When you combine the two together, you not only get a mix of some of the today's finest music, but also a pretty nifty side-project, or so it seems... In a recent interview with the Riverfront Times (via TwentyFourBit ), Farrar revealed that recent work he did with Gibbard [...]
Onetime component of the vastly-influential alt-country originators Uncle Tupelo, Jay Farrar has traveled an arguably harder road than ex-bandmate Jeff Tweedy. While Wilco draws inspiration from the odder corners of post-Radiohead skronk and so reaps a megabuck harvest of acclaim, Farrar's Son Volt continues to burnish the spare and anthracite-hard aesthetic of high lonesome. This interview by Ron Garmon.
[Getting back into town today after a little road trip. Thanks to my pinch-bloggers the past few days; happy birthday to Stewart Copeland; and here's a full plate of music goodies from which to sample tonight:] My trip to the heartland yielded a good read or two, including this Riverfront Times interview with Son Volt's Jay Farrar on his band's new album "American Central Dust." The quintet plays the Wiltern tonight with the Cowboy Junkies . ... The "Also I Like to Rock" free concert [...]
It has to be intimidating - building a legacy. The shadow that Uncle Tupelo has cast across the alt.country genre for the past 20 years is an enormous one, no matter what your opinion about their music. It's Jay Farrar who seems to have lived most in the wake of his former band, [...]
Son Volt 's latest album American Central Dust came out on Tuesday, July 7. I haven't fully digested this one yet, but it sounds like Jay and the boys are playing some great country-folk. Lots of pedal steel and classic country guitar on this one. Me likey. They are on tour right now, specifically in Snowbird, Utah today. You can follow them on their tour blog . Son Volt - Roll On.mp3 Buy : American Central Dust (2009) [...]
Yes, it is OK to listen to, and like, both, Wilco and Son Volt . One isn't necessarily better than the other, but like it or not, the careers of Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy will always be linked by the spirit of the great Uncle Tupelo . Personally, I have always preferred Farrar's musical voice and political leanings, even way back when. Of course, beginning with 1996's Being There , Tweedy shocked music fans by undertaking an evolution the likes of which hasn't been witnessed since [...]
Ever have one of those days when you're tired of rock and roll? Maybe the day you took that Chickenfoot CD home, listened and said "eh." It might be time to get back to yer roots, boy. Levon Helm has released his second album since beating throat cancer, and Electric Dirt couldn't be a more appropriate title. This sequel to his acclaimed Dirt Farmer album is more, ah, electric, with joyous covers of blues and gospel and a detour through the [...]
When I first started this blog nearly a year ago, I had grand visions of having a "Jay Farrar Friday" every few weeks. To date, I have had two " Jay Farrar Fridays ." I get easily distracted and forgetful. Two things reignited my desire to post about Jay Farrar this week. One, on Wednesday night I had a dream I was a guitar tech for Farrar and that he was playing a small acoustic show in Toronto. This was clearly a dream as I know nothing about playing, much less tuning, a guitar. And, I have actually never seen [...]
Counting down to the new Son Volt album. ...his finest work yet ...the melodic succinctness of the band's debut album Trace ... rarely does a musical work do powerfully capture the zeitgeist of it's historical moment, while also honoring the traditions of rock & roll with such rawboned grace Do we believe the hype? Liking this is lot. Down to the Wire [...]
I spoke with Jay Farrar of Son Volt about his upcoming album, American Central Dust , which drops July 7th on Rounder Records . It was an honor to be able to speak to someone whose music I've enjoyed so much for over a decade. If you consider yourself a Son Volt/Farrar fan, you're going to be very pleased with American Central Dust . Could you lend some information on the recording process of the [...]
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