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This is a nice collection of some unreleased and live songs. A few of these songs are available on the excellent Son Volt Retrospective (buy it if you don't have it), but the majority of these are fairly hard to come by. The ones that are on the retrospective are indicated with an asterisk. Some standout tracks are the "Windfall" demo, the wonderful cover of Towne Van Zandt's "Rex's Blues" with Kelly Willis (This track is so good it's worth having twice!), the acoustic version of "Drown", the Byrds' "Truck Stop Girl" (with Kelly Willis again)....pretty much all the Kelly Willis songs are outstanding. The live version of "Tear Stained Eye" is pretty damned good too. Also of note is the version of "Lookin' At The World Through A Windshield" on here which is different from the one on the retrospective (which is from the Rig Rog Deluxe album).
- Route [Demo]
- Windfall [Demo]
- Tear Stained Eye [Demo]*
- Rex's Blues (with Kelly Willis) [Red Hot + Bothered]*
- Tulsa County [Switchback EP]*
- Drown (Acoustic) [Switchback EP]
- Going Going Gone [Switchback EP]
- Ain't No More Cane (with Kelly Willis) [Outtake]
- Old Dutch (David Boquist Vocal) [Outtake]
- Seven To A Room (Jim Boquist Vocal) [Outtake]
- Lookin' At The World Through A Windshield [Pop Culture Flexi-Disc]
- Truck Stop Girl (with Kelly Willis) [Rig Rock Deluxe]
- Weighted Down [More Oar Tribute]
- Tear Stained Eye [Live]
- Holocaust [B-Side]*
- Last Time Around [Live]
- Straigtface [Live]
- Too Early [Live]
- Is Anybody Going To San Antone [Live]



Ah, thank you so much!
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THANKS!!!
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Got that in your first posting... it's good to re-up those to get them again under attention.
ReplyDeleteBoth "Old Dutch" and "Seven To A Room" feature Jim Boquist on lead vocal. I had the occasion a few years back to speak to Dave Boquist and he confirmed this to me. I love these two demos- would have loved to hear more of Jim's voice on the old Son Volt releases. Jay didn't utilize Jim's voice near enough in my opinion.
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