![]() These songs – when Farrar’s unique voice shone best in a setting that felt rooted in both trad country and early ‘70s rock like The Faces and the Stones at their rootsiest best (think “Exile On Main Street” and “Let It Bleed”) – unsurprisingly, were the highlights for me. ![]() While Son Volt played about half its most recent record – last year’s “Electro Melodier” – there was plenty of room for material from the first three records, which are my favorites: “Trace,” “Straightaways” and “Wide Swing Tremolo.” On Thursday, the group’s 90-minute set included material from across the Son Volt’s nearly 30-year career, which was split into two phases hyphenated by a brief solo career by frontman and songwriter Jay Farrar. While Setlist.fm doesn't acknowledge these shows, I was at them, even if the details are a little fuzzy by now. The most recent I could recall was likely in 2009, as part of the tour for “American Central Dust,” under the roof of the Johnson Controls World Sound Stage. Cellular Stage, dates back to when the group’s debut, “Trace,” was still relatively new. The alt country outfit – one of two groups, along with Wilco, to emerge from the ashes of roots rock pioneers Uncle Tupelo – was playing what was by my reckoning, at least its third Summerfest show. Although it was still daylight on a steamy Thursday afternoon when Son Volt walked out onto the Briggs & Stratton Big Backyard Stage at Summerfest, the country-inflected rockers played a set that felt as intimate as if it were in a dusky club.
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