And, we couldn’t go to the ATM, because we had great seats at the bar during a long show in a crowded room AND there was a huge line outside. But my friend James and I were young, and either didn’t have credit cards, or were afraid to use them. I know, this shouldn’t have been a problem. First, a member of the audience called out for Tear-Stained Eye at the exact right time, prompting Jay Farrar to actually say something other than “thank you” on stage: “Did you have the set list in advance?” More importantly, I remember running out of cash. I have two vivid but not-very-interesting memories of that CMJ show. It was a CMJ show at Brownie’s on August 7th, 1995. In fact, this one happened before Trace came out, and would have been the first time most of us heard Windfall, Tear-Stained Eye, Drown, etc. What’s more, Son Volt played only one show that night, though the venue always required artists to perform two shows.Īs I listened to that show – which was, by the way, incendiary – I recalled another Son Volt show I saw during their early days. I saw all those acts and many more at The Bottom Line, but loud, electric bands were a rarity. I went to The Bottom Line a lot in those days, in part because I lived around the corner at Bleecker and MacDougal, but more because Allan Pepper presented the acts I was learning from: singer/songwriters like Townes Van Zant, Guy Clark, James McMurtry, Steve Forbert, Steve Earle, Ferron, Bill Morrissey, and Greg Brown. The reissue of Son Volt’s classic first album includes a Bottom Line show that I attended on February 12th, 1996.
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