Jay Farrar "Jay sired the alt-country movement with Uncle Tupelo. Since the band's demise, his former partner, Jeff Tweedy, has fluttered from rock pastiche to off-the-peg post-rock in Wilco, while Uncle Tupelo's inheritor, Ryan Adams, mixes up a baby-food version of Americana so delicious, even Elton John enjoys it. Farrar, by contrast, is incapable of being anything other than himself: darkly introspective, uncommunicative to the point of insolence. Yet his apparent obtuseness masks a determined drive towards purity. Farrar's second solo album slashes the dense country-rock of Uncle Tupelo and his subsequent band, Son Volt, to dinosaur bones of perfectly interlocking chord progressions, rainbow steel-guitar shapes, snatches of indistinct instrumentals and wood-smoked vocals." - SUNDAY TIMES, UNITED KINGDOM, July 2003 Farrar's haunting track, "No Rolling Back" from Terrior Blues was promoted to Americana radio, and appears on Volume Two of Shut Eye's This is Alt. Country series of discs.