Artist: Jay Farrar
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #66 Nov-Dec 2006
Gob Iron – Death Songs For The Living / Anders Parker – Self-Titled
It probably sounded like a good idea. During a two-day stretch in the fall of 2004, longtime friends Jay Farrar and Anders Parker, leaders of Son Volt and Varnaline, respectively, cobbled together the presumptive one-off Death Songs For The Living, an album of reworked folk standards that’s every bit as feel-good as its title suggests. [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #51 May-June 2004
Jay Farrar – Stone, Steel & Bright Lights
Jay Farrar’s appeal has always been as much in his sound as his songs. It’s a sound that has remained remarkably consistent through several bands and settings. Over his career, the musical backdrops have varied from traditionalist country to naked acoustic folk to raging, feedback-drenched rock. But a few things stay constant: his rugged, diesel-fueled [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #48 Nov-Dec 2003
Canyon / Jay Farrar – Metro (Chicago, IL)
In the wake of Son Volt’s late-1999 split, Jay Farrar worked with artists ranging from Gillian Welch to Superchunk’s Jon Wurster, released two albums and an EP, and played a couple hundred shows across North America and Europe. He wrote songs in slack-key tunings, dabbled with tape manipulation, collaborated with a flutist, and — in [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #45 May-June 2003
Jay Farrar – Terroir Blues
A crude art historian might suggest that creative forms develop along a similar arc: They begin as rudimentary attempts to reproduce a natural account of life, but mature into complex, subjective re-creations of the artist’s worldview. So the earliest, simple storytelling paved the way for the formal daring of, say, James Joyce. Landscape and portraits [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #40 July-Aug 2002
Jay Farrar – ThirdShiftGrottoSlack
This five-song disc spotlights a new “Memphis Mix” of the song “Damn Shame” from Jay Farrar’s recent Sebastopol release, supplementing it with four outtakes from the album’s original recording sessions. The remix was a worthy endeavor, dangling a rhythmic hook that makes a strong song more alluring than it was to begin with. The real [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #36 Nov-Dec 2001
Jay Farrar – World wide open
Sebastopol: “A small semi-urban community located on the western edge of the Santa Rosa plain in Northern California. It is 50 miles north of San Francisco, and about 15 miles from the Russian River. The city, incorporated in 1902, currently has a population of about 7,900 people.” (Source: website for the City of Sebastopol.) Sevastopol: [...]
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