Cumberland Caverns Live Welcomes Son Volt
Performing in the World-Famous Volcano Room on Sunday, Sept. 9, at 3 PM (CST)
Cumberland Caverns Live is excited to announce that Son Volt is making a stop at the World-Famous Volcano Room on Sunday, September 9!
Led by the songwriting and vocals of Jay Farrar, Son Volt was one of the most instrumental and influential bands in launching the Alt-Country movement of the 1990’s. A movement that was the precursor to what is now widely referred to as Americana. Son Volt’s acclaimed 1995 debut “Trace” was recently reissued in a special 20th Anniversary Edition.
The band’s latest album “Notes of Blue” was released in February of last year, and Jay spoke to Rolling Stone about the album’s blues inspirations. Jay said,
“Blues is such a foundational element in early country music. Hank Williams learned from a blues musician. My father played Hank Williams songs and I learned to play music from him. So it’s all part of a nice continuum.”
Elizabeth Cook – “Exodus of Venus”
Elizabeth Cook didn’t quite know what she was doing. But she knew there were songs, and they had to get out. Six years since her critically acclaimed Welder, as well as much personal tumult, there were songs that needed to be born.
“If anything, (Exodus) is a pledge of allegiance for the bad girls and the Homecoming Queens who got caught in a scandal. It’s a bill of rights and a testimony for those good girls who got away with more than they should have. I’m slow, and getting slower,” laughs the lanky blond, unapologetically. “I’m taking my time, really drilling down. There were nine versions of ‘Methadone Blues.’ I’ve never done that before. I love that entrenchment and dedication – and I wasn’t going to do any less than what needed to be done.”
From Dexter Green’s (also the album’s producer) opening electric guitar, equal parts foreboding and fraught, “Exodus of Venus” hurls a churlish witness to erotic upheaval and the drives that subsume our best notions. “Exodus” is an exhortation of sexual surrender that pushes past the brink of reason.
For fans of the Florida-born’n’raised Cook, a Grand Ole Opry regular, SiriusXM Outlaw Country hostess and David Letterman favorite, Exodus of Venus will be something of a shock. If she maintains the tang of her drawl, what emerges – beyond Cook’s always vibrant and vivid sense of detail – is a song cycle soaked in turpentine, musk and honey.
https://youtu.be/h6Am4klts-s
World Famous Volcano Room
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