Jay Farrar

Strangers Almanac - Whiskeytown
Workingman's Dead - Grateful Dead
AM - Wilco
Let Love In - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Tomorrow the Green Grass - The Jayhawks

I totally agree. Trace is the one to go with.

Beer Stained Thighs

Stoned, Stolen and Late Nights

I'm a huge Tom Waits fan. 'Christmas card from a hooker in Minneapolis' is one of my all time favorite songs. Closing TIme is one of 'those' records....just can't stop playing it. As an introduction I would pick up a record called 'Used Songs' which is a compilation released about a year ago. It's a...

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In any public forum you will get all kinds of people. For the most part I enjoy reading everyone's opinion about Jay and Son Volt.

Nuns N Moses

That's ridiculous.

Granted ,but I was more thinking about the Ryan Adams connection - sorry should have qualified....

Are you telling me that there are people out there who proclaim something is good (eg Kind of Blue) just because someone who is supposedly a knowledgable music critic says it is, even though they think it is crap?

Anybody ever heard of the story of the Emperor's New Clothes?

Agreed Brad Rice is a great guitarist...but if I had a choice I would love to see Jay play with ex-Whiskeytown guitarist Phil Wandscher

Everyone is free to think what they like, but I just feel that what you are saying invloves a huge amount of speculation and imagined exchanges between people that you don't know. I understand where you are coming from but will wait for something more concrete before I put any blame on Jay or anybod...

The obvious way it played out? Are you kidding me? How can you possibly jump to that conclusion?

Let's just remember that we are fans on a message board and most of us know very little about what actually goes on.

If using the name Son Volt was purely to boost sales for the Anthology (which I presume is coming out on Warner) then doesn't that suggest that a new deal is in the works with Warner or one of their subsidiaries? If so, I'm sure the deal was contingent on him continuing to use the Son Volt name. I f...