An Evening With Jay Farrar

August 12th, 2005

I met up with a couple friends last night and headed over to the east side Borders where Jay Farrar put on a brief solo performance followed by an autograph signing session. It was just on guitar and harmonica. It was really quite a good little show. If memory serves, this is the setlist:

Bandages & Scars
Ipecac
Gramophone
Joe Citizen Blues
Windfall
Medication

I was hoping that he’d do “Medication” as A) it’s a great song and B) the live solo performance of it on the bonus DVD documentary that comes with Son Volt’s latest album, Okemah and the Melody of Riot was fucking awesome! Needless to say, I was not disappointed. The song is a great solo piece. The jam that closes the tune works incredibly well with Jay alone. It retains that country raga feel but is busier. Good stuff! Here’s some pics from the performance:

After the performance, I went outside with my friends to enjoy a root. My buddy Pete and I were both surprised that Jay actually had his eyes open during the whole performance! During the autographing bit, Jay came across as being a really nice, if shy, person. I must admit, he was a bit more talkative than I expected. This is, however, not to say that he suffered from loghorrea. He joked around a bit and was kind enough to let me have my picture taken with him. (I will spare y’all the sight of my visage.) I videotaped the performance and got some clips with my still camera too. I’ll post something after I capture the video and have time to do some editing.

If anyone, including the guy I gave my little leaflet to, has any pictures or video from this performance, please get in touch with me.

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