Wide Swing Tremolo

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Wide Swing Tremolo

Studio album by Son Volt
Released	October 6, 1998
Genre	Alternative country
Length	45:34
Label	WEA
Professional reviews
Pitchfork Media (7.3/10) link Rolling Stone link

Wide Swing Tremolo is a 1998 album by Son Volt.

[edit] Track listing

Straightface
Driving the View
Jodel
Medicine Hat
Strands
Flow
Dead Man's Clothes
Right on Through
Chanty
Carry You Down
Question
Streets That Time Walks
Hanging Blue Side
Blind Hope

The album Wide Swing Tremelo was primarily a commentary on how humans can become bogged down in their own troubles and pain, the least cryptic of this being in the tracks Blind Hope and Hanging Blue Side. The album also featured one track similar in content to two tracks from Sebastopol, another Jay Farrar album. the track here is called Jodel, which is the sound of a harmonica that was crushed before recording was started. It can be speculated the one of the tracks, Medeicine Hat, was mostly a reference to Dante's Inferno, given the somewhat similar tone and predictions. The album contained many different instruments, though primarily acoustic in nature, ranging from electric and acoustic guitars to piano in Dead Man's Clothes to a damaged harmonica. Unlike many Jay Farrar albums released in the early days of Son Volt and his independent works after the breakup of the Band Uncle Tupelo, this album contains the only recordings of tracks 5 through 12 (at the time Farrar was redoing songs over and over for a better feel, as seen in his albums Sebastopol, Stone Steel and Bright Lights, and Terroir Blues).