Jay Farrar will also be hitting the road to perform songs from the classic album, billing the tour as “ Jay Farrar Performs Songs of Trace.” He will be joined by original pedal steel player, Eric Heywood, along with Gary Hunt, who plays a number of instruments. There also will be an LP version, downloadable tracks, and an expanded booklet. Also, the second CD will feature a 15-track live set from a Februshow at The Bottom Line.
Rhino Records and Warner Brothers Records are working together to release the expanded and remastered deluxe edition of Trace, which in addition to the album will include eight demos of album tracks. Much of Trace has a spirit and a substance that many of the great American novels of this century have.”
It’s also an emotional chronicle of the breakup of Farrar’s former band. Louis): ” Trace is a long love poem to the Mississippi River, with passages of sheer poetic intensity. As Richard Byrne wrote at the time of the original release in Riverfront Times (St. The original album also remains as one of the great modern meditations on themes of alienation and rural living, with lyrics touched by Farrar’s efforts to come to terms with the breakup of Uncle Tupelo. The album was an instant classic, and I still maintain that the album as two of the greatest alt-country songs ever released, “Windfall” and “Tear-Stained Eye.” Now, Son Volt is releasing a twentieth anniversary edition of the album with bonus tracks in a 2-CD set. In 1995, Jay Farrar - fresh off the dissolution of Uncle Tupelo - released the album Trace with his new band Son Volt.
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