Son Volt, Wide Swing Tremolo - 45m 37s

Tracks & Durations

1. Straightface	3:02
2. Driving The View	2:58
3. Jodel	0:41
4. Medicine Hat	4:13
5. Strands	5:05
6. Flow	2:18
7. Dead Man's Clothes	2:48
8. Right On Through	3:08
9. Chanty	1:28
10. Carry You Down	3:27
11. Question	4:00
12. Streets That Time Walks	5:23
13. Hanging Blue Side	3:42
14. Blind Hope	3:16

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Review

Son Volt's weary music, especially the deliberate voice and words of frontman Jay Farrar, is a comforting mystery; its suggestive flashes of phrase and image seem every bit as wise as they are inscrutable. On Wide Swing Tremolo, the band's third effort, the band's trademark blend of brooding guitar rock and atmospheric pedal steel is subtly touched up with dissonant harmonica, distorted vocals, and uncharacteristically loping rhythms. At its best, as on the dread fortune-telling of "Medicine Hat," the pulsing sound and dense lyrics reveal a kind of portentous mystery. Farrar obviously labors over his complex and poetic lyrics, but his idiosyncratic phrasing and slurred delivery (although always emotionally affecting) already slightly obscure his messages. Why he would choose to bury what wisdom he has to share in such a thick, unenlightening mix, remains a mystery of a much more infuriating sort. --David Cantwell

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Wide Swing Tremolo

Tracks: 14, Disk length: 45m 58s (+0m 21s)

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