Jay Farrar

On March 26th, behind the not so big city bright lights of the Jay Peak Hotel, Jay Farrar and his accompanists, plus a small but devoted audience, conjured up in a cozy living room atmosphere in what otherwise might’ve been the sterile likes of the Foeger Ballroom. The former leader of Uncle Tupelo and frontm

One catapulted to become one of the premier rock bands of the past three decades while the other more or less spun its wheels, putting out similar albums with diminishing returns.

At one point, Jay Farrar asked if any in the audience had missed the big inaugural ball in Washington, DC to be at tonight's show. But from the playing of John Lennon's "Working Class Hero" over the house PA system between sets, to the Woody Guthrie-honoring lyrics in one of Farrar's newer songs, it was obvio

Jay Farrar - the ex-Uncle Tupelo front-man Son Volt founder and wandering whisperer of all things alt-country - sauntered into town with the Blood Oranges' Mark Spencer and treated a sold-out crowd to more than an hour of heartfelt Americana.

Jay Farrar has the distinction of having been in two of the genre-defining bands of the alt. country movement, first as a member of Uncle Tupelo and then as the leader of Son Volt. Released in 1995, Son Volt’s debut album Trace  has become known as a classic of the genre. Last week, Rhin

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