Jay Farrar Quotes

I'm glad we were able to do that [tribute] for Alejandro. That's sort of a last positive effort that we all contributed to. I think it was just a good way to go out. - Jay Farrar

I think we've both gone through that period -- people yelling out for my songs at his shows and yelling for his songs at my shows, but that's kinda died down. - Jay Farrar

I think I just sort of felt like with the original incarnation of Son Volt we'd hit a wall... I didn't want to necessarily be the person who had to crack the whip to try to push people in a certain direction that they didn't want to go. - Jay Farrar

I really wanted to get back to playing electric guitar and being in a band, and regaining that feeling that you get, that sense of camaraderie that goes along with it. - Jay Farrar

I felt like I just wanted to get back to Son Volt, after having done the solo records. I just began to miss the group dynamic. (Son Volt) has always kind of represented a vehicle for putting out a certain type of songs and songwriting. - Jay Farrar

I don't view it in the terms of a comeback. - Jay Farrar

But at this point it seems kind of inevitable or unstoppable. - Jay Farrar

After doing the solo records, I was playing a lot of acoustic shows and just began missing the band dynamic. So getting back to Son Volt was, for me, finishing unfinished business. - Jay Farrar

[Earlier Son Volt releases possessed a more composed, controlled atmosphere, which showed off Farrar's songwriting chops well, but the new one has a more pervasive sense of urgency, not just lyrically but also musically. There's an immediacy that's palpable.] We were kind of a new configuration, so there's an edge there, a spontaneity that's basically good... Maybe we were aware that this was something special that never happened before? - Jay Farrar

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