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Son Volt — Windfall
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unclehud
(now 50 feet above the planet in Boston)
Posted: May 27, 2013 - 00:21
 
I've really, really, really, wanted to like Son Volt, but it just ain't gonna happen.  Even seen them twice just to 'touch the magic.'  Enjoy the lyrics and the southern-fried feel, though.

dig
Posted: Apr 25, 2013 - 16:49
 
 muzik wrote:
Too twangy - fiddle, steel guitar, nasal voice.  {#Puke} Country western music literally makes me sick to my stomach!


 

People who misuse the word "literally", figuratively make me sick to my stomach.

dig
Posted: Apr 25, 2013 - 16:14
 
 aversely wrote:
I love this....and not just because I imagine Tweedy thinking, "man, thats better then anything Ive come up with...." everytime he hears this...

 

Tweedy has transcended this many times over, yet, it is as good as anything Wilco has done.

If you don't get this song I don't get you.

Ballzak
Posted: Apr 25, 2013 - 15:59
 
and besides, this AIN'T country.

leafmold
Posted: Feb 28, 2013 - 12:57
 
 BCarn wrote:
This is country. If I want to listen to country I'll go an appropriate station. A big "Sucko Barfo".{#Fire}
 
I've always thought of this as in the realm of alt-country, where many fine artists reside. But what's wrong with good country music anyway? What about June Carter—(or any of the Carter family) or J Cash? Aren't they considered country? Are they hated too?

BazH
Posted: Jan 28, 2013 - 05:47
 
 kurt_from_kanada wrote:


See that button "PSD" ??. That lets you change songs, don't like a selection, use it.
 
Should be all kinds of music. What are they supposed to play all day?

kurt_from_kanada
(carleton place ontario)
Posted: Jan 21, 2013 - 09:56
 
 BCarn wrote:
This is country. If I want to listen to country I'll go an appropriate station. A big "Sucko Barfo".{#Fire}
 

See that button "PSD" ??. That lets you change songs, don't like a selection, use it.

JNiel
Posted: Oct 19, 2012 - 08:25
 
 BCarn wrote:
This is country. If I want to listen to country I'll go an appropriate station. A big "Sucko Barfo".{#Fire}
 
One of the things I've always loved about RP is that it isn't about just one genre of music. With that said, if I were to attempt to classify Son Volt I'd say they were Americana. Sure some might say country, but I don't think most of us have ever thought of them that way.

itaish
(Berkeley, CA)
Posted: Sep 24, 2012 - 16:11
 
 BCarn wrote:
This is country. If I want to listen to country I'll go an appropriate station.{#Fire}
 
Can you specify what type of music exactly do you expect to hear on RP? Whatever type of music it is I am sure you'll find more appropriate stations than RP.

BCarn
(British Columbia)
Posted: Sep 24, 2012 - 16:07
 
This is country. If I want to listen to country I'll go an appropriate station. A big "Sucko Barfo".{#Fire}

ghoffman
(Plano, TX)
Posted: Sep 24, 2012 - 16:06
 
 Stingray wrote:

This is "Country Music" to you?
 
Definitely sounds like "Country Music" to me.

Tippster
(Washington, DC)
Posted: Sep 24, 2012 - 16:04
 
 TerryS wrote:

Care to classify?
 
Americana or "Old Timey Music." {#Snooty}

TerryS
(Another SW)
Posted: Jul 23, 2012 - 18:27
 
 Stingray wrote:

This is "Country Music" to you?
 
Care to classify?

idiot_wind
Posted: Jun 22, 2012 - 07:23
 
All right. Son Volt - Uncle Tupleo.

Sad country rock about growing up in Belleville, IL (southern IL) with broken down cities, muggy hot summer weather, dead end job.

But getting in your car and driving the back roads at night..cool and fragrant summer air and looking up at stars. Somewhere on a county road between Belleville and Shiloh. Ask Jay Farrar or Jeff Tweedy...they know. 

ScottFromWyoming
(Powell)
Posted: Jun 22, 2012 - 07:20
 
 Webfoot wrote:


I find unpopular thoughts are often true.
 


Darlington
(Columbia, South Carolina)
Posted: Jun 15, 2012 - 06:37
 
 aversely wrote:
I love this....and not just because I imagine Tweedy thinking, "man, thats better then anything Ive come up with...." everytime he hears this...
 

I really don't think Tweedy thinks that...great song, though.

Webfoot
(Eugene, Oregon)
Posted: May 21, 2012 - 13:36
 
 ziakut wrote:
Folky and country - ish. It's funny, but I tend to really enjoy bands that aren't labelled country that venture into this genre. It tends to be more sincere to me and less 'expected'. The sight of all these country artists donning cowboy hats and chaps is kind of pretentious to me. I know, I know it's not a popular thought. I certainly never tend to voice only popular thoughts anyway. Yay me! {#Eh}{#Cheers}
 

I find unpopular thoughts are often true.

aversely
Posted: May 21, 2012 - 12:18
 
I love this....and not just because I imagine Tweedy thinking, "man, thats better then anything Ive come up with...." everytime he hears this...

ziakut
(Albeit In The Meantime)
Posted: May 21, 2012 - 11:56
 
Folky and country - ish. It's funny, but I tend to really enjoy bands that aren't labelled country that venture into this genre. It tends to be more sincere to me and less 'expected'. The sight of all these country artists donning cowboy hats and chaps is kind of pretentious to me. I know, I know it's not a popular thought. I certainly never tend to voice only popular thoughts anyway. Yay me! {#Eh}{#Cheers}

demenshea
(Foothills of the Sierra Nevada Range)
Posted: May 21, 2012 - 11:56
 
Not a country and western fan, but this is really a fun song with good production.  I find this enjoyable something I didn't think i'd ever say about this genre, unless it's by Bob Wills or Hank Williams, then it's all good.

Webfoot
(Eugene, Oregon)
Posted: May 21, 2012 - 11:54
 
I think they really nailed it with this one.

Stingray
("ANONYMOUS INTERNET")
Posted: May 14, 2012 - 11:52
 
 hughtwg wrote:
Country music still sucks.

 
This is "Country Music" to you?

Stingray
("ANONYMOUS INTERNET")
Posted: May 14, 2012 - 11:50
 
 yayo wrote:
on the road. very good.
 

And shitty, at home - I guess!

tzzzzz....!!!!



yayo
Posted: Mar 12, 2012 - 02:59
 
on the road. very good.

northern_girl
(minnesota)
Posted: Feb 16, 2012 - 07:52
 

Love this  - great roadtrip song.     



smackiepipe
(Western North Carolina)
Posted: Feb 16, 2012 - 07:49
 
Have loved this song for about a dozen years. Reminds me of Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and could fit along side of NGDB's 'Ripplin Waters.'

wrangler
(swamps of jersey)
Posted: Feb 16, 2012 - 07:46
 
love this song - it will always take me away.
used to play this album while bartending in jackson hole  {#Cowboy}

Ears_of_Stone
(Crushed under the hooves of the herd)
Posted: Feb 09, 2012 - 08:51
 
I'm going to go against the bigoted attitudes and say that I like this song and overall sound. Good on ya Bill for actually living up to the eclectic label.

daveshel4
(Seattle)
Posted: Oct 12, 2011 - 13:32
 
 BKardon wrote:

You'll sooner see Buddy Holly on tour than Tweedy and Farrar get back together.

 

People need to have dreams...



BKardon
(Louisville, CO)
Posted: Oct 05, 2011 - 13:35
 
Never thought of this song, or this band, as a country/western band.  They are Americana/alt.country to my ears.  Rock with a little twang thrown in.

BKardon
(Louisville, CO)
Posted: Oct 05, 2011 - 13:34
 
 daveshel4 wrote:

Love this song - best song on the best album by Son Volt, although whenever I hear Son Volt it really just gets me fantasizing about an Uncle Tupelo reunion tour.


 
You'll sooner see Buddy Holly on tour than Tweedy and Farrar get back together.


socalhol
(Seattle)
Posted: Aug 10, 2011 - 16:37
 
ughhh, this singer's voice is so twangy-whiney — fingernails on the chalkboard for me!

muzik
(Montana)
Posted: Aug 10, 2011 - 16:36
 
Too twangy - fiddle, steel guitar, nasal voice.  {#Puke} Country western music literally makes me sick to my stomach!


mandolin
(...drifting...)
Posted: Jun 08, 2011 - 16:23
 
 mcullers wrote:
Like most country music, this song would be fine as an instrumental. The generic country twang voice makes me cringe.
 

...funny, i've always thought of son volt as a rock band...interesting, the points at which genres converge, depending upon the direction from which one approaches them...

daveshel4
(Seattle)
Posted: Jun 01, 2011 - 16:54
 

Love this song - best song on the best album by Son Volt, although whenever I hear Son Volt it really just gets me fantasizing about an Uncle Tupelo reunion tour.



Stylist
(Karlsruhe, Germany)
Posted: May 01, 2011 - 03:27
 
Please STOP playing this country stuff! {#Puke}

jagdriver
(Just a nod and a wink south of Paradise)
Posted: Apr 06, 2011 - 10:37
 
May the DJ take this song awayyyyyyy.....

wrangler
(swamps of jersey)
Posted: Apr 06, 2011 - 10:35
 
one of my desert islands albums.  sublime.  {#Cowboy}

mcullers
(Country-Dominated TX)
Posted: Mar 30, 2011 - 12:07
 
Like most country music, this song would be fine as an instrumental. The generic country twang voice makes me cringe.

hughtwg
(NoVA)
Posted: Mar 30, 2011 - 12:06
 
Country music still sucks.


evenflower
(On a pillow made of concrete)
Posted: Jan 26, 2011 - 18:13
 
I'm assuming that "Son Volt" is Clint Black's alter ego.

Tippster
(Washington, DC)
Posted: Jan 26, 2011 - 18:10
 
This song makes me wanna rock on a porch with a glass of brown in my hand. 

Screw the haters, I love Jay's voice.

bindi
(North Carolina)
Posted: Aug 21, 2010 - 07:16
 
 pianocomposer wrote:
I simply hate country music with twangy guitars and fiddles.

 
I have been thinking about this a lot lately, as my tastes are drawing me towards a sound that I used to associate with "country".  I like a steel guitar in small doses, and "fiddles" here and there - it doesn't seem to be that for me. There is something else that separated a song like like this and "country" for me.
I think it is mostly subject matter and delivery -  maybe a line about a gun, a hound dog, a pickup truck, a cheatin' wife, a worn out cliche or goofy twist on words would do it.   A dumbass hillbilly accent is probably the biggest turnoff though. . .like nails on a chalkboard for me.


Papernapkin
(Mountain View, CA)
Posted: Mar 15, 2010 - 08:11
 
 toterola wrote:


F**k 'em. A good song is a good song, whether it's Merle Haggard or REM.

I'm as country as a red dirt road, and I like about 95% of what I hear on RP. Folks have to keep an open mind, and be willing to expand their musical palette. Or else you wind up listening to Top 40 or (shudder) "classic rock". Good comment. {#Wave}
 
Your favorites list of songs ranges from 20 to 30 years old. Folks have to keep an open mind, indeed.

scruffystevie
(Sunny Brighton, England)
Posted: Mar 15, 2010 - 08:05
 
Nice.

Might have to take this on my road trip to Wyoming this summer....

mandolin
(...drifting...)
Posted: Dec 10, 2009 - 22:38
 
...i never noticed until tonight the similarities between jay farrar and richard buckner in vocal delivery...

Yibbyl
(Gaäd only knows)
Posted: Nov 09, 2009 - 13:03
 
 Pyro wrote:
Love this verse: 

Switching it over to AM
Searching for a truer sound
Can't recall the call letters
Steel guitar and settle down
Catching an all-night station somewhere in Louisiana
It sounds like 1963, but for now it sounds like heaven

 
My favorite verse in the song as well.  Some things just come across as a "universal truth" or almost relating a sense of "home", if that makes sense.  These lyrics really work for me.



anotherlistener
Posted: Nov 09, 2009 - 12:59
 
I'm not particularly country in my musical tastes, but this sounds right good.

Pyro
Posted: Jun 04, 2009 - 12:20
 
 toterola wrote:


F**k 'em. A good song is a good song, whether it's Merle Haggard or REM.

I'm as country as a red dirt road, and I like about 95% of what I hear on RP. Folks have to keep an open mind, and be willing to expand their musical palette. Or else you wind up listening to Top 40 or (shudder) "classic rock". Good comment. {#Wave}
 
{#Clap}



GChevy410
(Seattle, WA)
Posted: Jun 04, 2009 - 12:19
 
 toterola wrote:


F**k 'em. A good song is a good song, whether it's Merle Haggard or REM.

I'm as country as a red dirt road, and I like about 95% of what I hear on RP. Folks have to keep an open mind, and be willing to expand their musical palette. Or else you wind up listening to Top 40 or (shudder) "classic rock". Good comment. {#Wave}
 
I was just about to mention how i do not like REM because of the whiny voice and "twang", but I have liked Sunvolt for 10-15 years now.