Son Volt - "Drown" from Conan O'Brien - April 4, 1996
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2024
- From my VHS archives comes this recording of Son Volt playing live on Late Night With Conan O'Brien in April 1996. I believe this might be Son Volt's first national TV appear, promoting the Trace album which had been released in Autumn 1995. I haven't found this particular performance elsewhere on UA-cam, so this may be something of a rarity.
Sadly, I didn't always get a great signal for my local NBC station and I was using a lesser quality VCR by this point (one which recorded only in mono). So we're stuck here with an image with plenty of ghosting and a mono soundtrack. But the sound is still decent and the image is still watchable, so I figured it was worth sharing regardless. Enjoy!
Today....Oct. 21, 2021 and this is still better than the wannabes getting airtime on Country radio today.
October 4,2023 and you are god damn right! 👍
The production on the album was awesome. The guitars were so raw and up front. Love it.
One of the best songs - and albums - of the 90s
A seminal album. One of my all-time favorites. And it was recorded two miles from where I currently live - Northfield, MN.
What an album! Rich sounds!
The Boquist Boys father was Harry Boquist--clarinet and saxophone genius during the big band era. They grew up next to a dairy farm and had access to the woods in between Carroll's farm and Rosemount High School--petrified forest, cow pies and the perfect percolation for Son Volt. Surreal happenstance....
Heard this song randomly in the background at a restaurant and thought "Hey--the 90's!" Came to YT and found this. Thanks! Man, the 90's had the best music....
80’s 90’s music can not be beat!!
@@jasonmcdowell17470s would like a word
Miss Uncle Tupelo!!😢😢
“When in doubt, move on, no need to sort it out” - greatest lyric of many great ones outta these guys
Jay sure knows how to squeeze a great tone out of a Vox AC amp.
My old high school > college band used to cover this song back in 1996 - such an incredible song! So tasteful, the tones out of the Vox are killer, man...thanks for uploading!
love this song, hadn't heard it since the 90's. forgotten gem
How did I miss these guys in the 90s? I should have paid more attention...
How can this be almost 22 yrs ago😭
It's almost 25 years old now
@@KyleCaughlin Who do I have to bang to get a quip in around here? 😆
still get chills
Son Volt has a new album coming out! I pre-ordered it. Feb. 4 2019
I used to listen to this in a graveyard and it was all right.
One of the best!!
Mike Heidorn just rips it up!!!
Wow we were all so much younger 26 years ago…this was always my favorite song of theirs. I used to be way into Alternative and now I only listen to Hip Hop and SuperPop but wow this really made me close TikTok for a sec and think about what was and who we used to be. The world just sucks now; oh yea, we’re causing it!! Lmfao smdh
Sounds great, man! Thanks!
Wow, Son Volt from back when they were still playing within a six-hour drive of me! THOSE WERE THE DAYS
#WesternNewYork #SouthernOntario #WhatDidWeDoToPissThisBandOff
(2007 was the last SV show I could have gone to, if anyone out there thinks I'm exaggerating. I'm not.)
Played Straightaways over and over until the tape began to drag. Then I grabbed The Why Store…and another beer
Thanks for effort
Sound/Vid fine to these ol SV fans.
Any decent Les Paul type guitar be it a Junior or Standard through a correctly working old AC30 will sound like this. Same as Gary Moore used EV speakers with an old Marshall and Vintage Les Paul, then Slash comes along and it was a Marshall JCM800 and Les Paul with 25 Watt Green Backs and 30 Watt Black backs on the neck Pickup and people say he has Gary’s tone. Difference is Slash was pushing the speakers into distortion and Gary’s amp,Vintage Les Paul and fingers were speaking. Aside from that yes great tune and sound. Worked a gig like I have millions of times and these guys played. I was totally hoping I’d hear more from them. Have these guys faded for good?
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Country music with Marshall amplifiers, cryptic lyrics; that pretty much personifies alt-country.
April 24th...1st Ave.....Son Volt....UNION...I will be there.
great stuff thanky...yay the sontarans
Tasty use of the cow bell
More Cowbell!
My contemporaries.
thanks man, good stuff
So great. Shame he and Tweedy parted ways. Unreal to think of what could have been. Love both but I think the sum may well have been better than parts if given time to gestate.
Jay is the alt-country king.
used to be
Jay Farrar ia the king of y'allternative
He's the king of crap now. His 25th reunion of "Trace" is all he could muster after 25 years? It's not like it was Sgt. Pepper's
Okay: sounds amazing. Never happens in the late night venue
More cowbell please
Prairie Rock
Farrar is the revolutionary man of alternative country! Give Jeff Tweedy from Wilco credit for forcing his way into the band, "Uncle Tupelo", to provide the unique sound, which was Jay's band. Jeff Tweedy mentioned, Jay & I were opposites, he was too old school for me & my style began to turn him off. Then Wilco began. (Paraphrased) It would be cool to see them unite again, maybe do a live tour of only Uncle Tupelo songs & creat an album.
This band always Rocked harder than Wilco. They were way more Country too.
I wish this hadn't been the first single off 'Trace,' especially with Son Volt making its first big TV debut. It might have been a favorite of the band's, but in any show I saw, or still find in youtube, "Windfall" and "Tear Stained Eye" are audience favorites and surely were Warner Brothers' brass favorites. They are more accessible and tell lyrical stories. Drown seems like a composite of catch phrases and chopped-up broken melodies.
his record label was probably hoping to cash in on the 90's run of rock music that had a little bit of country influence, jacob dylan, gin blossoms, hootie and blowfish etc.... this song was a single on "alternative" rock radio, i bet alot of people probably bought the album and were surprised by the folk stuff like Windfall and Tear Stained Eye. either way Trace is one of the best albums ever recorded. it's perfect. :-)
I disagree, this is a great song and made an excellent first single. After hearing it for the very first time I rushed out and bought Trace and found it was packed with great material. But I am not so sure I would have reacted so enthusiastically had it been one of the other songs as the first song I heard by these guys.
Carter M i can understand your point, but this song kicks the most tail. It's an honest "rock song" Route was another one.
Picking 1 song off that 1st album is so difficult. It was good from the beginning to the end. All killer, no filler. Hand to GOD this is one of the best Albums ever. Right up there with The Beatles, The Stones, Zepplin, and pink floyd.
@@seanmcaleavy2369 I feel as though it generally works well to lead with a harder/faster song, and then to follow with a mellower second (or third) single.
@@ja8ames That's nice....
Any chance that you have the Son Volt/Richard Buckner Reverb show from HBO?
There is an undeniable They Might Be Giants vibe to this tune.
Close to og son volt.
Whose playing guitar left stage? Sure looks like Marc Perlman who played bass on one song of the album.
Dave Boquist on lead guitar, Jim Boquist on bass, Mike Heidorn on drums, and Jay Farrar on vocals and guitar.
@@mjanovec ok then original lineup, he sure looks like Perlman though. (Jayhawks)
@@tdavidg9176 That was the look!
I like Son Volts original line up here. But let's understand the facts : Son Volt , Uncle Tuepelo & Wilco didn't invent anything ! Alternative country what a crock ! A bunch of alternative music push nonsense !
All the bands mentioned were in awe and wanting to emulate California's great band The Long Ryders of the 80s ! Know your history people !
F Tweedy
should have cranked it louder and blown the audience away, as he did with Tupelo. He was not very inspired nor the song was very inspiring. Most people who watch that think he's a grunge wannabe. With the exception of some good songs, Sonvolt kind of sucked, reminiscent of Jay's crap like "Anodyne", which they played both times in Tupelo's final 2 shows in St. Louis and where I was at both.
But it’s not really a style of song to be cranked up. They’re softer rock than Uncle T. Jay evolved.