Plenty of steak, and you’ll go home feeling well-fed.įull concert review and photos Live Review: Son Volt The Birchmere - 3/2/22 | ParkLifeDC by Mark Engleson. There may not be a lot of sizzle, but there’s They play great music, the real shit, songs with substance that Son Volt are road warriors, almost certainly coming to a town near “Cherokee Street,” followed by the only cover of the evening, NRBQ’s “I “Driving the Route,” and “Medicine Hat.” For their encore, they did To Woody Guthrie “Afterglow 61,” an homage to Bob Dylan’s “Highway 61,” I’ve already mentioned the three big onesįrom Trace they also performed “Bandages & Scars,” an ode Goes to similar territory as Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down,” withoutīeing a similar song), “While The World Waits,” “Sinking Down,” “PickingĪfter “Reverie,” the band reached into their songbook to deliver a Other songsįrom the first half of the set included “Back Against the Wall,” (which Reference to the 99% - the song is about income inequality. “The Globe,” which opened the set, “Arkey Blue,” “Diamonds andĬigarettes,” and “Reverie.” “The Globe” was followed by “The 99,” a The rest is history, as they say.įrom Live Review: Son Volt The Birchmere - 3/2/22 | ParkLifeDC by Mark Engleson:Īt The Birchmere on March 2, the top half of the set included the first four tracks from Electro Melodier: The implosion of Uncle Tupelo led to Jeff Tweedy spinning off to form Wilco and Farrar forming Son Volt. Many know Jay Farrar as a member of Uncle Tupelo, the band which spawned the whole No Depression/alt-rock-country movement of the 90's. Stupendous mainly because we were simply enjoying live music by one of what we consider to be just about the 2nd most influential musician that we've had the pleasure to enjoy over the decades to watch and grow - Jay Farrar. (Or, another example, "Live Music Is Better" - Mid-Summer 2021 Edition #2.)Įarlier this month, we caught Son Volt at The Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia on Maand it was pretty stupendous. everybody knows "Live Music Is Better", of course. Last year, we had a rather life changing event occur where we can truly say that "The Music Saved Our Lives" - both seriously and literally.Īnd - as we discussed throughout 2020 & 2021. At just 31 minutes, Notes Of Blue provides a lean and sturdy showcase for Farrar's eternally weary but undiminished voice - which here gets employed in the service of shimmery ballads ("Promise The World," "Cairo And Southern") and rowdy, chugging rockers ("Static," "Lost Souls") alike.Son Volt The Birchmere, Alexandria, Virginia - Ma(photo by TW) But their fates and reputations shifted considerably from there: Wilco grew more iconic and creatively expansive, ultimately overshadowing even the genre-defining band that spawned it, while Son Volt settled into cult status and an unsteady career path marked by lineup and label changes, as well as a hiatus to accommodate a brief solo career.īut Son Volt has always deserved more attention than it's gotten, and the occasion of its eighth album is as good a time as any to revisit a sound that's worn well with time. In 1995, those bands - Son Volt, led by Jay Farrar, and Wilco, led by Jeff Tweedy - released similarly heralded (and terrific) debuts. After all, Uncle Tupelo had always balanced two distinct singing and songwriting voices, and both were held in similarly high esteem at the time. When Uncle Tupelo splintered into two bands back in 1994, both offshoots seemed primed for more or less equal success.
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