Uncut — Hear Elliott Smith, Sheer Mag, Hurray For The Riff Raff, Son Volt, Shins etc Hear Elliott Smith, Sheer Mag, Hurray For The Riff Raff, Son Volt, Shins etc The post The First Uncut Playlist Of 2017 appeared first on Uncut. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Son Volt will release their new album, Notes of Blue, on February 17 via Thirty Tigers. As the title suggests, the new album is inspired by the blues, but "not the standard blues as most know it." Continue reading… more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The country music festival also features Son Volt, Justin Townes Earle, .38 Special, Nikki Lane, Robert Ellis, Tommy James and the Shondells, Los Lobos, Cowboy Junkies, The Long Ryders, The Sadies, and more. Continue reading… more info

Stereogum — Son Volt’s 1995 debut, Trace, is an album full of highways and backroads, maps and legends. Sturdily constructed from scraps of rusted country and strange, white-line-feverish imagery, these songs conjure long nights behind the wheel, your only com... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — 2015 marks the 20th anniversary of Son Volt's debut album, Trace. In celebration, Rhino will be releasing a deluxe edition CD featuring remastered original tracks, demos, an 18-track 1996 live performance from NYC's The Bottom Line and liner notes... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Uncle Tupelo and Son Volt's Jay Farrar is going on a short tour in February 2015 and hitting NYC for two nights, like he did in 2014. First he plays the newly-relocated Living Room on February 10 (now at... more info

Stereogum — David Eugene Edwards came up as frontman of the Denver-based 16 Horsepower, an alt-country band that signed to A&M at a time when major labels were signing alt-country bands across the United States (16 Horsepower released their debut EP in 1995, the... more info

Pitchfork - Album Reviews — Jay Farrar has always stood up for the Little Guy in America. Most of his songs are about regular folks facing down some challenge, whether it’s a powerful corporation, a corrupt politician, or simply hard times. With Uncle Tupelo in the early... more info

Consequence of Sound — Jay Farrar gives his band's well-worn country rock a traditional kick. more info

Music News Net — We're quite pleased to offer up Son Volt’s new album, Honky Tonk. It's the seventh studio release from Jay Farrar and company, the more rootsy offshoot from the Uncle Tupelo split. On Honky Tonk, though, they go further in search... more info