Jay Farrar

They don't seem to be there anymore. And they're not in the liner notes OR on this site like some of the previous releases that did not contain them with the CD.


First Spencer's posts have been deleted, now this. Hmmm... is it a conspiracy??? Alien invaders?? Jealous Wilco fans??

My top three: Roll On Roll On Roll On :wink: That song is just about perfect: the laid back rhythm, the sentiment of the lyrics, Jay's phrasing in the vocal delivery, the key change in the chorus with the minor chord in the progession, the beautifully understated guitar and electric piano accents, t...

From the Billboard link: ""One Fast Move or I'm Gone" comes on the heels of Farrar's latest Son Volt release "American Central Dust," which after release in July 2009 has sold 21,000 according to Nielsen SoundScan. Son Volt's best seller to date has been 1995's debut "Trace," which has sold 297,000....

Yep... I edited in the correction. Thanks.

BTW - how does one play a D way up the fingerboard to reach that B and C#? (my fingers just don't go that far!)

Heart on the Ground in standard tuning:

Intro/Bridge: D+G# -> D -> D+B -> D+C#

Verse: Bm F#m E D F#m E D D
Chorus: A E D D

The last 2 D chords in the intro/bridge may not be possible playing in standard tuning?

Megaballs1 - check my work please and maybe help with those D chords

Yet more Farrar/Tweedy comparisons, but I like the last three paragraphs... pretty much sums up how I see the differences: "Let Wilco play with dissonance and smuggle out insight in riddles (what the hell are spiders doing filling out tax returns?), and let Son Volt celebrate the Old, Weird America ...

Indy setlist in no particular order: ACD: Dynamite, Down to the Wire, C & A, D of D, When the Wheels, No turning back, Pushed too Far, Strength and Doubt Search: The Picture, Action, U-ground dream, The Search, Meth, H & C Okemah: B & S, Afterglow 61, Gramophone WST and Straightaways were shutout. ...

Ah...

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Is it just me, or do we need a "Grifter Translation" program to decipher his posts?

I rarely understand what the hell they mean. Could just be me though...

"This is about the extent of my knowledge. Frankly, I don't know how a Dmaj chord relates to the key of Cmaj." In this context, I think it's a circle of fifths thing. G is the fifth in the key of C, and D is the fifth in the key of G. So you have: C to G to D. the verses in Roll on are in C. The G ...

I love a key change if you don't realize it happened and it just sounds dramatic or other. Ya gotta sneak it in...and it's most often a happy accident if it ends up being successful. Jon is thinking the way I bet Jay thinks. Happy accidents not pre arranged triads and circle fifth stuff. I think he...

When I was talking about what chords are in the key of C, I was talking about triads. So although the key of C contains the notes C,D,E,F,G,A and B (all the white keys on a keyboard), in terms of triad chords it does not contain the Amaj triad (A-C#-E) since C# is not in the scale. In my second repl...

In 'Roll On', the verse has the chords C, F and G which usually means the key of C. The verse has the chords D, A, Am and G. D, Am and G are also in the key of C, but A is not. So, yea, not sure that justifies a 'key change', but it normally doesn't fit. I thought Pushed had a similar thing going on...

Is it my imagination or is ACD the first(?) time Jay has used key changes/modulations in his song structures? On ACD, I see at least 3 - Roll On, Pushed to Far and that little turnaround thing in Dust of Daylight. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any other tunes in his past where he's used k...

Set #1 (odds) for me - I think Roll On is my favorite song on the CD.