Trace (album)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[2]
Entertainment Weekly	A^[3]
Mojo	^[4]
NME	8/10^[5]
PopMatters	9/10^[6]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[7]
The Village Voice	C+^[8]

Trace is the first album by Son Volt, released in 1995. The band was formed the previous year by Jay Farrar after the breakup of the influential alt-country band Uncle Tupelo. The album reached #166 on the Billboard 200 album chart and received extremely favorable reviews. According to Allmusic, "Throughout Son Volt's debut, Trace, the group reworks classic honky tonk and rock & roll, adding a desperate, determined edge to their performances. Even when they rock out, there is a palpable sense of melancholy to Farrar's voice, which lends a poignancy to the music." The album was in the top 10 of Rolling Stone's 1995 critics' list.

"Drown" was a minor college and rock radio hit. It charted at #10 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and #25 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.^[9] It remains their only single to land on either of the charts.

Track listing

All of the songs were written by Farrar except "Mystifies Me", written by Ronnie Wood.

"Windfall" – 2:58
"Live Free" – 3:13
"Tear Stained Eye" – 4:21
"Route" – 3:57
"Ten Second News" – 3:57
"Drown" – 3:20
"Loose String" – 3:48
"Out of the Picture" – 3:50
"Catching On" – 4:02
"Too Early" – 4:29
"Mystifies Me" – 4:12

Personnel

Dave Boquist: Guitar, banjo, fiddle, lap steel guitar, Dobro
Jim Boquist: Bass, backing vocals
Jay Farrar: Vocals, guitar
Mike Heidorn: Drums
Eric Heywood: Pedal steel guitar
Craig Krampf: Drums on "Live Free"
Dan Newton: Accordion on "Too Early"
Marc Perlman: Bass on "Mystifies Me"

References

↑ Deming, Mark. "Trace – Son Volt". AllMusic. Retrieved August 10, 2016.
↑ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-857-12595-8.
↑ Woodard, Josef (November 10, 1995). "Trace". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved August 10, 2016.
↑ Tamarkin, Jeff (February 2016). "Son Volt: Trace". Mojo (267): 106.
↑ "Son Volt: Trace". NME: 38. December 9, 1995.
↑ Beaudoin, Jedd (November 11, 2015). "Son Volt: Trace". PopMatters. Retrieved August 10, 2016.
↑ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian, eds. (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-743-20169-8.
↑ Christgau, Robert (February 20, 1996). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. Retrieved August 10, 2016.
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Holly George-Warren and Patricia Romanowski, ed. (2005). "Son Volt". The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll. New York, New York: Fireside. pp. 911–912. ISBN 978-0-7432-9201-6.

Son Volt

Jay Farrar Dave Bryson Andrew Duplantis Mark Spencer Gary Hunt Mike Heidorn Dave Boquist Jim Boquist Eric Heywood Brad Rice Derry deBorja Chris Masterson

Studio albums	Trace (1995) Straightaways (1997) Wide Swing Tremolo (1998) A Retrospective: 1995-2000 (2005) Okemah and the Melody of Riot (2005) The Search (2007) American Central Dust (2009)

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