Jay Farrar

If you liked Farrar's Live In Seattle album, you're in for a tasty dessert. Stone, Steel & Bright Lights isn't just ear candy -- it's as sumptuous as Baked Alaska. With twang rockers Canyon as his backing band, even the psychedelic Syd Barrett cover at the end makes sense. (Well, sort of.)

As a founding member of Uncle Tupelo in the late-Eighties, Jay Farrar helped define a new
genre of American roots music that borrowed as much from rock & roll as traditional
country. But in the time since dissolving the group, Farrar has become a folk troubadour
whose songs are meant for the road -- full of post-modern poetry that reveal truths about
the shape our lives have taken in an increasingly complex world -- and best suit... More >