Jay farrar
USA
Born: 26 December 1967
Styles: Alternative Country-Rock, Alt-Country, Alternative Country, Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Country-Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Americana
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As a founding member of Uncle Tupelo and Son Volt, songwriter Jay Farrar helped popularize the alt-country movement of the 1990s. He also launched a solo career during the following decade, making it plain that his musical ambitions stretched far beyond the retro-leaning twang of his contemporaries. Farrar was born and raised in Belleville, IL, a small town not far from the Illinois/Missouri border. He was 12 when he first began leaning to play the guitar, and in high school he made friends with a fellow musically-inclined student named Jeff T...
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See also
- Son Volt (17)
- The Primitives (9)
- Uncle Tupelo (7)
Similar artists
- R.E.M. (83)
- Whiskeytown (14)
- Doug Burr (8)
- Richmond Fontaine (6)
- Patterson Hood (3)
- Lloyd Cole and The Commotions (-4)
Influenced by
- Neil Young (298)
- Gene Clark (18)
- Gram Parsons (16)
- the Carter Family (4)
- Doug Sahm (1)
Followers
- Jeff Tweedy (10)
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