#jay farrar

[tuuneoftheday]

Son Volt - Loose String

#son volt #trace #loose string #wilco #tune of the day #totd #jay farrar #Spotify

[thequeenofcansandjars]

"Whiskey Bottle", by Uncle Tupelo from No Depression

#music #No Depression #Uncle Tupelo #it's a drinking night #posting from a '3 hour away town' #1990 #Jay Farrar #Jeff Tweedy

[dk-thrive]

When you find what matters is what you feel It arrives, and it disappears

Jay Farrar, song lyric from “Ten Second News,” Trace LP by Son Volt (Warner Bros., 1995) (via The Vale of Soul-Making)

#feel #need #want #matter #purpose #Jay Farrar

[sinceileftyoublog]

Anders Parker Live Preview: 12/14, Undertow

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Over the past few decades, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Anders Parker has transformed from making 4-track lo-fi fuzz rock (early Varnaline) to troubadour-land. It's the latter he's become known for, save for a short stint in the now defunct noise rockers Space Needle and a couple collaborations with Jay Farrar. Parker's latest album The Black Flight, released through his own label Recorded & Freed, is his most straightforward, yet personal album. Recorded as minimally as it was written, the acoustic guitar record is inspired by his great uncle Leslie, a fighter pilot in WWI who died during a dogfight. Its references to war, let alone "The Great War" specifically, are general, a humanistic emphasis on what drives us to do the things we do, how we remember, and how we're remembered.

Behind The Black Flight is a sentiment Parker shared about the album: "I hope that humanity someday finds a way to free itself from the seemingly endless impulse to kill each other." On opener "Don't Let Them Get You Down", he explores what compels people to join war: "I'm heading for the action / I'm looking for a fight / I need my satisfaction / Want to shoot out all their lights." The 10-plus-minute title track, built around intense strums and arpeggiated plucks, sports uneven structures and varying levels of repetition and intensity, as if to mirror the simultaneous predictability and unpredictability of violence. That is, though the individual battles may be different, it's a tale as old as time: Why we fight is often ambiguous, and, "the list of names is never done." Parker further pays tribute to those who survive and how they're shaped mentally for the rest of their lives on blues dirges "Killin' Man" and "A Way Back Home". Those who analyze war, he posits, still don't have the ability to capture the sheer absurdity of it all.

Thankfully, on a few tracks, Parker delves into what keeps us alive. Though fighting is nightmarish, he uses the positive connotations of dreams, too, the opportunity to fulfill our goals and desires existing beyond the scope of a surrealistic pillow. "I can't move the mountain looming, but I can climb a thousand miles," he sings beautifully on closer "A Permanent Wave", the lightness of his picking allowing echo and space to fill the void, the musical representation of tangible potential. And fluttery and sheepish but no less serious are "Northern Girl" and "One Last and Lonely Night", songs where love, or even just lust, are balms in a violent world. War or not, we're all gonna die, says Parker, so pick your side of the mountain and start climbing.

Parker is currently on an Undertow tour, playing at folks' houses throughout the country, including tonight in Chicago at 8:00 PM. The show is happening in the 60625 zip code (somewhere around Ravenswood, Lincoln Square, or Albany Park), and its location won't be revealed until you purchase tickets. At the time of publication, there are 25 tickets available.

#live picks #anders parker #undertow #the black flight #varnaline #space needle #jay farrar #recorded & freed

[artjipson]

Desert Island Album: A Gritty and Poignant Journey Through the Heartland with Uncle Tupelo

One of Dr. J's favorite records of all time. Period. Truth!

How often has someone asked what are your top ten albums in your record collection? Or how many of us have had one of those bar conversations where we are hypothetically trapped on a desert island with only ten records? A desert island album is meant to be a fun concept often discussed among music fans. It refers to an album that someone would choose to have with them if they were stranded on a…

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#Jay Farrar #Jeff Tweedy #Mike Heidorn #Still Feel Gone #uncle tupelo

[thevinylcornerblog]

It's a Good "Day of the Doug" with Son Volt Tribute LP

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#album #day of the doug #doug sahm #freelance #indie #jay farrar #journalism #music #review #son volt #writing

[nullpointerintime]

March Song Challenge 2023 Day 28: A song that reminds you of fall

California Zephyr - Jay Farrar & Ben Gibbard

#march song challenge #jay farrar #ben gibbard #i actually get to ride this train next month #(or well - the modern day successor that took its name) #Youtube

[dinosaursr66]

The great Uncle Tupelo split into two wonderful bands, Wilco and Son Volt. Jay Farrer wrote this gorgeous song early on and I continue to put it into my top 20 of all time.

SONG OF THE DAY - February 3, 2023

#song of the day #son volt #Wilco #jay farrar #alt rock #alt country #no depression #jeff tweedy #Youtube

[heartcravings]

#california zephyr #ben gibbard #jay farrar #sam's tunes for the day #i was this days old when i discovered the california zephyr is an actual thing and not something imaginary for this song. #Spotify

[computerexploder]

mutuals field trip to times beach

#state park there now but i want to see a ghost town / former superfund site jay farrar has sung about man

[archivist-dragonfly]

Book 469

Jay’s Journal of Anomalies

Ricky Jay

Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001

I actually met Ricky Jay once. At the time—this was in 2008—my friend was working on the UFC tv show, and he invited me to watch the Ultimate Fighter finale which was being filmed at the Palms Casino in Vegas. So we’re there in the food court area having something to eat after the fight, and who should walk in and grab a table near us but the unmistakable Mr Jay. Now this was a bit odd, because I happen to know that he was banned from playing cards in casinos because his slight-of-hand was just that good. However, the David Mamet film, Redbelt, about an MMA fighter and in which Jay had a role, had recently been released, so I imagine he was also there taking in the fight. Anyway, I really wanted to meet him and let him know how much I admired his books. So I screwed up my courage, approached him, and introduced myself. After a few awkward compliments from me, I then sheepishly asked for an autograph, but the only piece of paper I had on me was my ticket for the fight. So he graciously signed that. I’m looking at it right now as I write this—it’s dated June 21st, 2008 and on the back is Jay’s signature, written in faded ballpoint. It’s one of the very few autographs I have ever asked for, and the only one I still have.

#bookshelf #illustrated book #library #personal library #personal collection #books #book lover #bibliophile #booklr #Jay��s journal of anomalies #ricky jay #farrar straus and giroux #magic #cultural history

[garadinervi]

Phillip Hoose, Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, Melanie Kroupa Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, NY, 2009, pp. 29-35 [Designed by Jay Colvin]

#graphic design #book #claudette colvin #phillip hoose #jay colvin #melanie kroupa books #farrar straus giroux #2000s

[lorettapetrichor]

:] grabbed from @ineffable-gallimaufry <3<

spell your url with song titles and then tag as many people as there are letters!

i - i will follow you into the dark - death cab for cutie

l - liability - lorde

l - lifeforms - daughter

f - flare - homestuck ost

o - on the sea - beach house

l - like the dawn - the oh hellos

l - lovely - billie eilish

o - one fast move or im gone - jay farrar & benjamin gibbard

w - wolf - first aid kit

y - yellow light - of monsters and men

o - old gods, new angels - horizon/ophelia

u - untitled 6 - sigur ros

i - icicles - the scary jokes

n - narcoleptic - placebo

t - to be enchanted - sleeping at last

o - o valencia - the decemberists

t - two birds - regina spektor

h - half light 1 - arcade fire

e - everybodys fool - evanescence

d - doom in full bloom - american football

a - always gold - radical face

r - ribs - lorde

k - karkalicious

andddd i aint taggin all those people lmaooo add on if u want

#lore rants abt music

[wellesleybooks]

The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced yesterday, amazingly there were two novels chosen for the award for fiction.

Pulitzer Awards for Books, Drama and Music

Fiction

"Demon Copperhead," by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper)

"Trust," by Hernan Diaz (Riverhead Books)

Finalist:

"The Immortal King Rao," by Vauhini Vara (W. W. Norton & Company)

Drama

"English," by Sanaz Toossi

Finalists:

"On Sugarland," by Aleshea Harris

"The Far Country," by Lloyd Suh

History

"Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power," by Jefferson Cowie (Basic Books)

Finalists:

"Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America," by Michael John Witgen (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture/University of North Carolina Press)

"Watergate: A New History," by Garrett M. Graff (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)

Biography

"G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century," by Beverly Gage (Viking)

Finalists:

"His Name is George Floyd," by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa (Viking)

"Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century," by Jennifer Homans (Random House)

Memoir or Autobiography

"Stay True," by Hua Hsu (Doubleday)

Finalists:

"Easy Beauty: A Memoir," by Chloé Cooper Jones (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)

"The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir," by Ingrid Rojas Contreras (Doubleday)

Poetry

"Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020," by Carl Phillips (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Finalists:

"Blood Snow," by dg nanouk okpik (Wave Books)

"Still Life," by the late Jay Hopler (McSweeney’s)

General Nonfiction

"His Name is George Floyd," by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa (Viking)

Finalists:

"Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern," by Jing Tsu (Riverhead Books)

"Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution’s Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction," by David George Haskell (Viking)

"Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation," by Linda Villarosa (Doubleday)

Music

"Omar," by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels

Finalists:

"Monochromatic Light (Afterlife)," by Tyshawn Sorey

"Perspective," by Jerrilynn Patton

#pulitzer prize #books #award winners #barbara kingsolver #demon copperhead #trust #hernan diaz #harper books #riverhead books #g-man #beverly gage #stay true #hua hsu #his name is george floyd #robert samuels #toluse olorunnipa #viking books #doubleday books

[a-skirmish-of-wit-and-lit]

Book Review: The Fury by Alex Michaelides

Michaelides' latest is a murder mystery that builds its story with ever-increasing suspense and a growing whipping of the wind. Everything is wound tight. Pulled taut. Orchestrated within the confined structure of a five act play. It all starts off with a soft gale, where the narrator slowly introduces and details the lives of Lana Farrar and her group of friends as they gather to spend the weekend on a private Greek island. However, it isn't long before things devolve into a blustering storm of fury as sordid events unfold and murder is plotted, planned, and carried out--with secret motivations and manipulations being administered behind the scenes.

The narrative voice is unique in that Elliot Chase, one of Lana's friends, is recounting the tale. He often breaks the fourth wall, bouncing back and forth between directly addressing the audience like an old friend and offering a more detached, almost omniscient, perspective in an attempt to preserve his own credibility. It makes for an interesting unfolding of events because it encourages readers to parse through all the subtext he lays out and dissect all that he is (or is not) saying.

All in all, I thought this was a well-paced, character-driven thriller. I couldn't help but note the Knives Out: Glass Onion feel of it, with all the murder suspects not only knowing each other but being trapped together on a small island. I also couldn't help but draw parallels between Elliot Chase and Nick Carraway from The Great Gatsby because of how they both idealized Lana and Jay Gatsby in their own ways, and, as a result of that, put them up on a pedestal. They felt eerily reminiscent of one another in that respect. At the same time, I thought the unreliability their narratives struck entirely different tones in the end, leaving readers with wildly contradictory feelings about them, and I rather enjoyed that.

I imagine some readers may not enjoy the narration style in this, but if you're a fan of forced proximity in murder mysteries, or you care to witness a group of ritzy friends being shady and betraying each other on holiday, you won't want to miss this one!

Many thanks to NetGalley and Celadon Books for the ARC in exchange for my review.

3.5/5 stars

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#ashlee bree's book reviews #the fury #alex michaelides #arcs #mystery #thriller #recs: ashlee approved! #read january 2024 #published january 2024 #bookblr #booklr #book reviews #book recs

[sandybrett]

I'm trying to make WOE.BEGONE character playlists, and ironically I've got an Uncle Tupelo song on there ("So Called Friend", on Hunter's playlist) and a Son Volt song ("Out of the Picture", on Edgar's playlist), but no Wilco so far.

(For those who don't know, Uncle Tupelo basically split into two bands, Son Volt and Wilco, after the two main guys, Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy, had a falling out. Wilco is somewhat better known, but I'm a lot more familiar with the other two.)

Anyway, I will try to get some Wilco on there, as well as some Sufjan Stevens and Arctic Monkeys.

#woe.begone #wilco #uncle tupelo #son volt #and now for something completely different #playlist #that time travel podcast