Son Volt - Straightaways
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Artist: Son VoltEdition: Music CD
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
Music reviews of Straightaways
Music Review: Solid CD from Son Volt in their prime
Rating: 4 Stars
Straightaways is a pure, honest blend of great songs: starting with alternative, melodic barroom stompers, it shifts midway, as style and tone decelerate to dusty, acoustic/alt country ballads, lead by Jay Farrar's baritone, guttural voice. Son Volt's stylistic comparisons to Neil Young's early recordings are understood and warranted, with buzzing, jangly guitars and pedal steel in the background. Lyrics are typically moody and full of angst - loneliness and alienation - all of which are common themes for Farrar. Son Volt's early work is exceptional and worth exploring. GENRES: Alternative, Alt Country, Mellow Rock, Rock.
BUY IF YOU LIKE: The Jayhawks, Neil Young, Uncle Tupelo.
MUST HEAR TRACKS: "Caryatid Easy," "Creosote," "Cemetery Savior."
Description of Straightaways
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 HimesGeneral CDs
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