Jay Farrar

The Gillian part of that episode is spectacular! your right, Revelator is spectacular...but Hickory Wind with Rawlings makes you have to pull over your car and just listen...

whats the "by the way" crap about? I've heard the Byrds thanks...I understand the influences in the early Byrds records...I also understand when someone is condescending, please get over yourself and try to treat this like a civil conversation...all right?

I'm listening to Steve Earle covering him right now...I'd like to here him reciprocate
Some suggestions:
Transcendental Blues
Tom Ames' Prayer
South Nashville Blues

I'd also like to hear him do Merle Haggards California Cottonfields
but what the hell do I know

persuaded, paraded, innebriated, in doubt- Still aware of everything, life goes on without

No Depression- hands down. They are all good but I connect the most with ND...
not forever, but just for now

Louvin Brothers "Atomic Power"...just great even though I want more fiddles at the end of it. If I play it again, my wife's gonna leave me and she's takin the dogs with her

I have a bias- my dad has played pedal steel guitar for years...but listen to "Medicine Hat"- that slide is the perfect match for jays voice...but I think the guy could sing Brittany Spears covers and make them compelling- Anyway- I'd like to here his take on a Patty Griffin song as well...I think t...

Yeah- Bob Strauss should be held under water until he stops makin bubbles, but it is not the review of the album that gets me sore. I just read a letter in No Depression (do yall read this magazine?) where someone wrote in and trashed Gillian Welch. Anyway- what he had to say was that he was souther...

Labels suck...We call alt country Alterna-Twang, as a joke more or less. It seems that back when the radio picked up bands like REM, they called them alternative. They were...really, an alternative to the mindless crap previously available. Of course, then REM did Shiny Happy People and became part ...

My neighbor swears she sees me in my drawers more then my wife does...and an old Ramones shirt...To tough to Die tour
(boy did that turn out to be a missconception)