Wide Swing Tremolo

Infobox Album
Name = Wide Swing Tremolo
Type = Album
Artist = Son Volt


Released = October 6 1998
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Genre = Alternative country
Length = 45:34
Label = WEA
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Reviews = *Pitchfork Media (7.3/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/21875-wide-swing-tremolo link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/sonvolt/albums/album/301435/review/5944042/wide_swing_tremolo link]
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"Wide Swing Tremolo" is a 1998 album by Son Volt.

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, "Medicine 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 & Bright Lights", and "Terroir Blues").