Son Volt LIVE 6 String Belief

The Tracks:1)Who2)Bandages & Scars3)6 String Belief4)Atmosphere5)Gramaphone6)Back into Your World7)Joe Citizen Blues8)Medicine Hat9)Ipecac10)Damn Shame11)Feel Free12)Barstow13)Loose String14)Choas Streams15)Live Free16)Clear Day Thunder17)Picking Up The Signal18)Jet pilot19)Endless War20)Route21)Straightface22)Caryatid Easy23)Driving The View24)Medication25)Drown26)Afterglow 6127)World Waits for You28)Tear Stained Eye29)Windfall30)Armagideon Time31)Chickamauga31 tracks folks. 11 bucks.Well Shot, EXCELLENT SOUND, great crowd and venue.Dolby Digital 5.1, PCM StereoChris Frame on Guitar instead of Brad Rice. All of the other players are from Okemah.And yes, I really live in Chickamauga:)

Some have suggested that the performance here is a bit monotonous. I would suggest that consistent is a better word. High quality musicianship, songwriting, and vocals persist throughout a 30+ song set. Even a casual fan of Son Volt would enjoy it.

Good concert

Jay Farrar and the band have never let me down. Masterful musicians.

If you are a Jay Farrar/Son Volt fan this is a must own. Even if you are just a fan of good rock and roll music this is the dvd for you. The Volt rocks out on every song spanning their entire catalog.

Son Volt is one of the best bands on the planet, and on the live stage, they are *the* best. This DVD does a wonderful job capturing the intensity of Son Volt's live shows, sparked by Farrar's signature stop-and-start sonic explosions. This really is a great collection of songs that span all of Farrar's work. My only complaint about this DVD is the format of the interview with Farrar included on the DVD's "Bonus Features" section. The interview has quite a bit of interesting info about Jay, Son Volt, and Uncle Tupelo, but it is delivered by flashing a question on the screen and then cutting to Farrar responding to the ghost who asked him. Makes for a very odd and rigid presentation of the information. Also, on a more minor note, there is an error in the track listing whereby if you select the song "Drown" it takes you not to the beginning of that song but to the middle of the previous song, "Medication." Still, for the chance to see and hear Son Volt live with such a great picture and sound quality, this DVD is worth every penny.

From the opening "Who" to the closing and rousing "Chickamauga," Jay Farrar and Son Volt are as potent and pwerful as Neil Young with Crazy Horse at their very best. With disarming directness and simplicity, Farrar crafts subtle and sophisticated tales like Young with a view from the Midwest, much as Young's vision is infused part Canadian Prairie and part western dessert. Farrar has a unique voice that passionately deals with alienation, the loss of love, the political illwill and its deleterious effects on the common man in ways that only Neil and his cohorts ever dealt with as compellingly.The show is a small theatre, and thus, there is an intimacy to the recording and the video that is always lost in bigger venues. Unlike Young, Farrar seems more in control of where and how his music is presented, where there are times throughout Neil's career you just wonder.....Anyway, short of "Anodyne," there is almost any song you could want from his catalogue. And the band is spot on with every lick, fill, exploration in which they all engage. As wryly self-effacing as Neil, Farrar early on advises the crowd they are filming, so if they don't get it right, they'll have to do it all over."6 String Belief" is a great title for the DVD: certainly Farrar's love for his craft pours out from his Gibson acoustic and Gretsch black with a crunch and conviction almost any artist would give their eye-teeth for. The 5.1 mix makes all this wonderful music even more "present" wherever you are. This is absolutely brilliant in every respect and there is an intriguing interview with Farrar as bonus material. But he says it all with his music.Perhaps one day, Farrar and Young will collaborate. Farrar is Young's heir in every best sense: the writing, the vocals, the playing - there is such an unaffected honesty to it all, that even more than thinking about Young working with him, you hope Tweedy, Heidorn and Farrar would convene Uncle Tupelo just one more time. It would break your heart if they never did...

Son Volt does not disappoint in this 2 hour DVD. I somewhat agree with the previous reviewer - HD Net showed part of this show and it was in High Def. But if you are a fan of Son Volt, especially the newest album, and/or Jay Farrar's solo work, this DVD is worth the price. The sound is incredible, and there are 31, count them, 31 songs spanning from his Uncle Tupelo days up through the entire new album being featured.Other than the picture issue, the only other drawbacks are variety of the material. The acoustic songs are few and far between, but the new band, especially with the 2 guitar approach, rocks. Could have also used more than one Uncle Tup song. But all in all a great DVD and a nice compliment to the Austin City Limit DVD.

Should have bought this sooner, much better than the Austin City Limits show. Good band, good songs. haven't liked everything they've done but thoroughly enjoyed this. American music, some nice slide work, yeah good.

After spending time experimenting and applying virtually every spin in alt-country possible in the process, Jay Farrar reformed Son Volt at just the right time, albeit with an even better line-up than the original. While I appreciate much of Farrar's solo work, and the effort behind it, hearing many of those songs played in a "rocked up", more coherent fashion really highlights the quality of the material. Of course, those tracks are placed alongside Son Volt classics (Tear-Stained Eye and Windfall), some lesser-known Son Volt songs that are among my favorites (Back Into Your World) and the best of the new material (Bandages and Scars), making this DVD a great buy. Great sound and simply catching Son Volt on a great night don't hurt either.