Son Volt News

Some more tour dates have been announced for the band and Jay Farrar will be doing a breeze through of a few Border's bookstores including the one on Madison's east side!

8/11 – Borders – 2173 Zeier Rd., Madison WI 53704 – 7:30 pm
8/12 - Borders – 4718 N. Broadway Ave., Chicago, IL 60640 – 7:00 pm
8/19 – Borders – 400 Post St., San Francisco, CA 94102 – 7:00 pm

On the CD front, there's an EP out now but available only through select retailers:

‘Afterglow 61 EP’, a 6-song release featuring unreleased material, is in record stores now. This EP is available through the CIMS (www.cimsmusic.com), MMN (www.musicmonitornetwork.com), AIMS (www.thealliancerocks.com) and Newbury Comics (www.newburycomics.com) networks and features the following:

Afterglow 61 – radio mix
Joe Citizen Blues – live from Tower Theatre in Philadelphia, PA
Bandages & Scars – live from Tower Theatre
Medication – live from Tower Theatre
Ipecac – live from Tower Theatre
Gramophone – live from KRO Radio 2 in Utrecht, Netherlands

This is an exclusive release through the stores above and will not be available on the Jay Farrar/Son Volt store for several months.

In addition, Best Buy will be selling copies of Okemah and the Melody of Riot that includes a DVD with some live footage on it:

Best Buy is offering an exclusive DVD of live Son Volt footage when you purchase ‘Okemah’. This DVD is inside of the actual cd package. Songs included are “Bandages & Scars”, “Gramophone”, “Drown” (all three from Tower Theatre in Philadelphia) and “Afterglow 61” (solo acoustic performance from Housing Works in NYC).

I'm all giddy now because I'll get to meet Jay Farrar! I wonder if he'd grant me an interview...