Jay Farrar

Once The Pretenders kick the machine back up, I'm sure he'll be gone. I'm sure The Pretenders check beats the Son Volt check...

Well, I read most of this thread and it was very interesting. Considering the fact that the Boquists and Heidorn spoke "through lawyers" when turning down Farrar's offer to reunite, I have to believe that there WAS bitterness, and some amount of needing it in writing this time, on their part toward...

Wow, my moment in the sun. I remember that. Wow, that was a long time ago. I still feel dumb for thinking Heidorn was a teacher. I think being majoring in journalism put the correlation of school with working for a newspaper. Luckily, been selling a few more albums these days. As much as I bounce ar...

8237 4 Life!

But, glad you like the Kerouac CD. I did a lot of work on that one as well and think it is great, from many angles, and as a Kerouac and jazz fan I think some jazzy-ass west coast cool jazz bippity bop take on his writing or book would be totally predictable, cheezy and unsatisfying, and personally...

Pitchfork guys are elitist idiots most of the time, but I tend to agree with this. If you don't know the book, the mood of it and whatnot, then this is a cool album, I'd guess. However, it loses the spirit and the music doesn't fit the pace of the story nor the mood. This would be an excellent colle...

"The sad thing is Jay is getting seen as a emulator with the whole Guthrie project and the Kerouac-album teaming with Gibbard. Kinda like a Loose Fur kinda deal..." I'm not sure about the emulator thing. If you want to go to the crux of the matter, Jay carries on in the singer/song writer vein. Of ...

It boils down to 2 things that put Wilco above Son Volt in the media's eye: 1. Jay is reclusive, Tweedy is a media whore. He does more to interact with his audience, does inteviews, posts things about his life, does movies about the inner-workings of his band, puts it all out there for the world to ...

I watched a song of their's on Austin City Limits once...ONCE...

Lean Forward...duh...

ACD wins. Son Volt with Farrar's lyrics beats Son Volt with literary passages...

The only song that would fit perfectly with these is California. Kerouac LOVED the west coast.

Others would work, but I could see California being a poem from Kerouac.

Woody Guthrie: A Life is the way to go. GREAT book. Bound for Glory is good, but it's an autobiography from a guy with a penchant for tall tales. Some of the inaccuracies are mentioned in "A Life". They're fun to read together. Woody had a wild life...you could see why he was brilliant and you could...

"It always makes me proud to love the world somehow-hate's so easy compared-But here I go flattering myself helling headbent to the silliest hate I ever had."

Could be a Rider/Twitcher73 thing going on here as Sam's a good dude. Nah, I'm just a snob when it comes to Kerouac stuff, I guess. This isn't what *I* envisioned when I thought about music to accompany the work. I'm happy so many people enjoy it, it's just not fulfilling to me. I would have liked ...

I sounds like Mazzy Star with dudes singing...I'm not overly impressed. The problem with Jay, as a musician, is that he sounds the same in most projects he's involved in post-UT. You can hear the music and be like "That's Son Volt/Farrar/Gob Iron/whatever." Which isn't bad, but it makes this a bit u...