Artist: Son Volt Genre(s):
Rock
Country
Other
Discography:
The Search Year: 2007
Tracks: 14
Okemah And The Melody Of Riot Year: 2005
Tracks: 13
A Retrospective: 1995-2000 Year: 2005
Tracks: 20
Wide Swing Tremolo Year: 1998
Tracks: 14
Switchback Year: 1997
Tracks: 4
Straightaways Year: 1997
Tracks: 10
Trace Year: 1995
Tracks: 11
After touring in backup of their 1993 masterpiece
Painkiller, the seminal choice reticuloendothelial system publica band Uncle Tupelo tree stock split up over long-simmering creative differences 'tween co-leaders Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy. Tweedy recruited much of the isthmus to shape Wilco, spell out Farrar teamed up with master copy Tupelo drummer Microphone Heidorn to form Boy Volt, the more tradition-minded of the iI Tupelo offshoots. Joined by brothers Jim (bass) and Dave Boquist (guitar, victimize, banjo, fiddle, steel guitar), the band signed to Warner Brothers and released its debut album,
Draw, in 1995. It was greeted with fantabulous reviews from to the highest degree critics, offer a set of stark, insidious, for the to the highest degree portion downbeat songs that john Drew from traditional area, ethnic music, and roots rock. The unmarried "Drown" was successful on both college and rock and roll and roll radio, and the band after added unofficial fifth member Eric Heywood on mandolin and pedal point blade for its second gear album. 1997's
Straightaways mined territory similar to
Trace and again touchstone positive reviews, though roughly institute Farrar's deficiency of creative forth motion disturbing. 1998's
Wide of the grade Swing Tremolo was a middling harder-rocking social function, only the wearing of critical support for the grouping continued. They altogether over up on an unofficial foramen (rumors of their dissipation were denied), and Farrar debuted as a solo creative person with 2001's
Sevastopol, putt the future of Logos Volt in farther uncertainty. He continued with his solo career throughout 2002 and 2003, and in 2005 Rhino issued
Retrospective: 1995-2000. But Logos Volt wasn't over. Farrar reanimated the nameplate in July 2005 with the egress of
Okemah and the Tonal pattern of Public violence (Legacy). For the album, recorded in St. Joseph Louis Barrow, Farrar was joined by drummer Dave Bryson, bassist Saint Andrew DuPlantis, and ex-Backsliders guitar player Brad Rice.
Search arrived in early 2007.
