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Straightaways (Vinyl)

By: Son Volt (Artist)

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for Straightaways (Vinyl) Album By Son Volt (Artist)
1   Caryatid Easy  
2   Back Into Your World  
3   Picking Up The Signal  
4   Left A Slide  
5   Creosote  
6   Cemetery Savior  
7   Last Minute Shakedown  
8   Been Set Free  
9   No More Parades  
10   Way Down Watson  
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (4/17/97, p.78) - 3.5 Stars (out of 5) - "...Son Volt rocking at their most forlorn....Farrar emits a deep, emotive country drawl like a slurring heartland Mick Jagger....has few brutally loud moments. The album strives for a more intimate back-porch vibe instead..."
Q (9/00, p.135) - Included in Q's "Best Alt.Country Albums Of All Time" - "...A truly evocative set of lost ballads..."
Musician (6/97, p.83) - "...With one scuffed boot planted firmly in folk and country traditions and the other plunked down on the smarter side of rock & roll, Farrar tends to his muses with more honesty and respect than your average electro-angst wranglers and punk-poppers..."
NME (Magazine) (8/9/97, p.43) - "...Son Volt's second offering nestles somewhere between country blues and the kind of authentic American bar-band rock Jason And The Scorchers were celebrated for in the mid-'80s....it's conservative Southern Gothic all round..."

Title Note

Son Volt: Jay Farrar (vocals, guitar, harmonica, organ); Dave Boquist (guitar, lap steel guitar, banjo, fiddle); Jim Boquist (bass, background vocals); Mike Heidorn (drums).

Additional personnel: Eric Heywood (pedal steel guitar, mandolin); Pauli Ryan (tambourine).

Recorded at Echo Park, Bloomington, Indiana and Pachyderm Studios, Cannon Falls, Minnesota.

In the wake of Uncle Tupelo's demise, Jay Farrar's Son Volt and Jeff Tweedy's Wilco became the Fine Young Cannibals and General Public of the twang generation, each band's faction rabidly defending the preeminence of its favorite. Initially, Wilco seemed to favor the raw, let-it-all-hang-out approach while Son Volt went for pop craft. On STRAIGHTAWAYS, though, Farrar and company pull a switch-up. While maintaining the same foundation of rootsy, acoustic-tinged arrangements and high-lonesome vocals, the band has opted for a looser, more spontaneous feel than the ornate constructions of its debut, TRACE.

"Caryatid Easy" and "Cemetery Savior" showcase the barnstorming, rocking side of the band, while "Way Down Watson" and the eerie murder ballad "Been Set Free" are quiet, fragile compositions that could be the outtakes of Son Volt tourmate Richard Buckner. The winner of the MVP award on STRAIGHTAWAYS is multi-instrumentalist Dave Boquist, whose guitar, banjo, fiddle and lap steel add just the right touch of down-home authenticity to Farrar's tunes.

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