Jay Farrar
The story of the American music dynasty, the Carters and Cashes, and their decades-long influence on popular music.
Five suburban youths embark on a night of violence in the city, attacking unsuspecting victims while recording the assaults on smartphones.
After the breakup of the pioneering alt-country band Uncle Tupelo, guitarist and songwriter Jay Farrar founded Son Volt, which gave him a purer vehicle for his moody and compelling songs and rich vocal style. In 1997, as Son Volt were touring in support of their second album, Straightaways…, Farrar and bandmates Dave Boquist, Jim Boquist, and Mike Heidorn. Track Listing 1 – Route 2 – Loose String 3 – Cemetery Savior 4 – Catching On 5 – Live Free 6 – Tear-Stained Eye 7 – True To Life 8 – Left A Slide 9 – Windfall 10 – Out Of The Picture 11 – Back Into Your World 12 – Ten Second News 13 – Picking Up The Signal 14 – Drown 15 – Too Early 16 – Chickamauga
With a vision that took him far beyond the genre of country rock, singer-songwriter Gram Parsons left his mark in gut-wrenching sentiments of country music, burning melodies typical of soul music, sweet, uplifting harmonies of gospel choirs and the hand-clapping boogie of rock and roll. Gram's daughter Polly organized this amazing gathering of his close friends and biggest fans for a Sin City tribute honoring this prince of longhair country boys. A sampling of the live performances include Six Days on the Road Sin City All Stars; Big Mouth Blues Jim Lauderdale; Devil in Disguise Jay Farrar; Sleepless Nights Lucinda Williams; Love Hurts Keith Richards & Norah Jones; Sin City Dwight Yoakam, and more, including commentaries by Polly Parsons and Shilah Morrow.
A young man finds solace with a young woman, his mother, and a high-school football coach who recruits him to quarterback a six-man team.
The great alt-country band Uncle Tupelo played its last concert on May 1, 1994, at Mississippi Nights in St. Louis, Missouri. By the time of this show, Jeff Tweedy and Jay Farrar were already not getting along well. Soon after the performance, they would both go on to create other bands, with Farrar founding Son Volt and Tweedy forming Wilco, but on that night in May 1994, there was one last grasp at combined harmony and greatness. In the video below, Tweedy and Farrar trade off on the lead vocals, with drummer Mike Heindon joining the band on the final song of the set, “Looking for a Way Out,” and also singing on the encore with Brian Henneman and the Bottle Rockets on Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Gimme Three Steps.”
