Son Volt "Electro Melodier" various artists The album incorporates some of

The album incorporates some of the band's most impenetrable walls of sound and an eleven-minute track composed almost entirely of manipulated and distorted samples

and mailed to himself as a "poor man's copyright"-remained sealed in it's original envelope and unopened for nearly 50 years

"A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays"

'Don't Turn Around'

Spotify's Global Top 50

Son Volt "Electro Melodier" various artists The album incorporates some of2020 was not quite what Jay Farrar was expecting for the 25th anniversary of Son Volt, the band he started in 1995 after leaving the seminal group Uncle Tupelo, whose No Depression album helped define the alt country and Americana genre. The group had just finished an Outlaw Country Cruise when the pandemic hit and sent them into their homes on lockdown. Instead of a triumphant tour marking the illustrious landmark, Farrar was forced indoors by the