TORONTO -- With his modest, ultra-serious demeanor, soft voice and halting sentences, Jay Farrar hardly comes across as a towering figure in modern American roots music. Yet, as co-founder of Uncle Tupelo -- with his childhood friend Jeff Tweedy, who went on to form Wilco -- Farrar helped to define the new wave of post-country-post-folk known as alt-country.
More importantly, though, Farrar has continued to write -- whether with his post-Tupelo band Son Volt or on his three solo albums -- harshly beautiful, sometimes depressing and sometimes uplifting songs about regular people going through regular upsetting things, and sing them with his uniquely mournful voice.
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