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This Alternative-Rock group formed after the demise of alt-Country pioneers Uncle Tupelo, the band broke up in early 1994 due to a breakdown in communications between the two chief singers and songwriters, Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy; the latter recruited much of the band to form Wilco and Farrar, with brothers Dave Boquist on guitar+banjo, Jim Boquist on bass and former Uncle Tupelo drummer Mike Heidorn started Son Volt.

The quartet issued its debut LP, "Trace", on Warner Bros in September 1995, the album broke into The Billboard 200 peaking at #166 and spawned the Mainstream Rock top 10 hit, "Drown".
One and a half year later Son Volt released their sophomore set, "Straightaways", widely acclaimed by critics and fans alike, it debuted at #44 on The Billboard Top 200 Albums chart, but this album failed to produce Mainstream Top 40 material.
October 1998 saw the release of the band's most album-Rock oriented CD, "Wide Swing Tremolo", the record barely squeezed into the top 100 of the U.S. Billboard 200 Sales list and eventually Warner Bros dropped the band from its roster.

Jay Farrar cut his first proper solo album, in 2001, amidst widespread rumors of an impending band breakup; though the group's main man denied this. On "Sebastopol" and 2003's "Terroir Blues", Farrar tinkered with song structures and off-beat tunings and experimented with instruments and tape loops.

In late 2004, when the first incarnation of the band chose not to regroup again after recording a song for a benefit compilation a new team coalesced rather quickly round the Son Volt banner; Farrar then reformed the band with guitarist Brad Rice, bassist Andrew Duplantis and drummer Dave Bryson.
In June 2005, they released an exclusive 6-track EP titled "Afterglow 61" which featured unreleased live songs including "Joe Citizen Blues"; the Son Volt's first album in seven years, "Okemah And The Melody Of Riot", followed a month later; it reached #89 on The Billboard 200 chart.

"The Search", the intriguing latest record from Son Volt, was released in March 2007 on Transmit Sound/Legacy, and it's by far the band's most daring and diverse album yet, most noticeably the addition of Derry DeBorja on keyboards, whose washes of organ and piano add new colors to the band's palate. "The Picture" is the first single off the CD.

 

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Trace

(1995)

1. Windfall
2. Live Free
3. Tear Stained Eye
4. Route
5. Ten Second News
6. Drown
7. Loose String
8. Out Of The Picture
9. Catching On
10. Too Early
11. Mystifies Me

 

Straightaways

(1997)

1. Caryatid Easy
2. Back Into Your World
3. Picking Up The Signal
4. Left A Slide
5. Creosote
6. Cemetery Savior
7. Last Minute Shakedown
8. Been Set Free
9. No More Parades
10. Way Down Watson

 

Wide Swing Tremolo

(1998)

1. Straightface
2. Driving The View
3. Jodel
4. Medicine Hat
5. Strands
6. Flow
7. Dead Man's Clothes
8. Right On Through
9. Chanty
10. Carry You Down
11. Question
12. Streets That Time Walks
13. Hanging Blue Side
14. Blind Hope

 

Afterglow 61
[EP]

(2005)

1. Afterglow 61 [radio mix]
2. Joe Citizen Blues [live]
3. Ipecac [live]
4. Medication [live]
5. Bandages And Scars
6. Gramophone [acoustic]

 

Okemah And The Melody Of Riot

(2005)

1. Bandages And Scars
2. Afterglow 61
3. Jet Pilot
4. Atmosphere
5. Ipecac
6. Who
7. Endless War
8. Medication
9. 6 String Belief
10. Gramophone
11. Chaos Streams
12. World Waits For You
13. World Waits For You [reprise]

 

The Search

(2007)

1. Slow Hearse
2. The Picture
3. Action
4. Underground Dream
5. Circadian Rhythm
6. Beacon Soul
7. The Search
8. Adrenaline And Heresy
9. Satellite
10. Automatic Society
11. Methamphetamine
12. L Train
13. Highways And Cigarettes
14. Phosphate Skin

 

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