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The Compass and the Course: Jay Farrar/Son Volt Considered

Graham Reid, Elsewhere, 1 October 2017

BACK AT THE DAWN of the '90s, critical consensus and discerning listeners were drawn towards the emerging alt.country/American sound coming out of the US. It wasn't new, it drew from old styles of country but placed them within a post-Band/contemporary punk rock ethic.

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