| Farrar, Jay / Terrior Blues |
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| Album: | Terrior Blues | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Farrar, Jay | Added: | 08/2003 | |
| Label: | Artemis Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2003-08-25 | Pull Date: | 2003-10-27 |
| Week Ending: | 26 Oct | 5 Oct | 21 Sep | 7 Sep | 31 Aug |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Feb 26, 2008: | Partly Cloudy Hard Is the Fall 2 | 4. | Mar 26, 2004: | Discarded, Recycled, and New Hard Is the Fall 2 | |
| 2. | Jun 20, 2005: | Julia's ringtones Cahokian | 5. | Jan 23, 2004: | Discarded, Recycled, and New Dent County | |
| 3. | Sep 06, 2004: | Short Song Marathon--Tom, Mr. Sparkle, and Mor fill in Space Junk 3, Space Junk 2, Space Junk 1 | 6. | Oct 19, 2003: | Sunny Side Up Heart on the Ground |
| Album Review |
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| Eric K! Reviewed 2003-08-20 | ||
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Jay Farrar, alt.country legend, the leader of Son Volt and sadder half of Uncle Tupelo has released a really sad album in _Terroir Blues_. Jay's voice which is a bit of an acquired taste is sensitive without being wimpy and is in nice form on this album. The music is, for the most part, not-quite-finished sounding '70's singer-songwriter music along with questionably conceived backtracking and overdub experiments. There are some very pretty folk songs on here and Jay is generous enough to offer two takes of the same songs. Usually one version is folky with acoustic blues-influenced lead guitar and spooky sounding pedal steel. The other version is more conventional electrified alt.country. I find the more electrified takes suit Jay much better. All of the songs are slow and, of course, sad. For those of you wondering, the tracks called "Space Junk" are just backtracking experiments and have nothing to do with that Devo song. Play this album with the something by the Sadies or Lowlights for a sad and spooky country set. standout tracks: 19,3,7,13,15,18 1. spare, mostly just guitar and vocals 2. backtracked instrumental, no Devo reference here 3. weird echoey overlayed vocals, spacious pedal steel 4. bizarre acoustic blues groove and treated vocals 5. backtracking, supershort 6. more conventional sensitive pop song, shimmering, philosophical, a little bouncey even 7. cello-driven, epic 8. sad pop song, starts acoustic, electric guitar comes in later, maybe slightly upbeat towards end 9. spare, folky, with flute 10. ominous pedal-steel, then suddenly kinda upbeat with slick sounding drums 11. More backtracking 12. acoustic, Jay singing about San Francisco & LA,tries to emote, becomes '70's-songwriteresque 13. sad spacious short folk song 14. backtracking 15. piano-drive ballad, very '70's, but sincere and it works, nice pedal steel parts, give this a listen and make 100% sure that the melody isn't "I'll be right there waiting for you" 16. acoustic blues-styled instrumental 17. backtracking, more interesting this time 18. revisiting track 6, sounds more upbeat and warmer, electric guitar 19. a normal take on 3 20. instrumental jam 21. alternate take on 8 with some unnerving repetetive piano backing, treated vocals 22. more appealing than 1, but electric guitar enters and drums pick up 23. backtracking | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | No Rolling Back | 12. | California | |||
| 2. | Space Junk 1 | 13. | Walk You Down | |||
| 3. | Hard Is the Fall | 14. | Space Junk 4 | |||
| 4. | Fool King's Crown | 15. | Dent County | |||
| 5. | Space Junk 2 | 16. | Fish Fingers Norway | |||
| 6. | Hanging on to You | 17. | Space Junk 5 | |||
| 7. | Cahokian | 18. | Hanging on to You 2 | |||
| 8. | Heart on the Ground | 19. | Hard Is the Fall 2 | |||
| 9. | Out on the Road | 20. | Jam | |||
| 10. | All of Your Might | 21. | Heart on the Ground 2 | |||
| 11. | Space Junk 3 | 22. | No Rolling Back 2 | |||
| 23. | Space Junk 6 | |||||