Jay Farrar - Terroir Blues
NME
RECORD REVIEW
Alt. country figurehead maps out the lie of the land
June 24th, 2003
by Nathaniel Cramp

Almost ten years after their demis, Uncle Tupelo are hailed as legends, but former singer/guitarist Jay Farrar is keeon to move on rather than trade on past glories. "The future is free", states album opener 'No Rolling Back', and the six chunks of Space Junk' are, literally, the only things going backwards here.

Meanwhile Farrar is back down on earth - the 'terroir' of the title - documenting the physical and metaphysical American landscape with wheezing synths, electric sitars and distortion alongside the more familiar country twang. This sees him walking a similar path to former Uncle cohort Jeff Tweedy. For, like Tweedy's Wilco album 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot', this is a beautiful analysis of Americana.