Name: Jay Farrar: What was the inspiration behind this project? by New Multitudes
Duration: 1 min 31 s
Description: Jay Farrar (Son Volt) answers the question "What was the inspiration behind New Multitudes"

Jay Farrar (Son Volt) answers the question "What was the inspiration behind New Multitudes"

Jay Farrar: What was the inspiration behind this project?

New Multitudes is an intimate interpretation of American icon and musical legend Woody Guthrie’s previously unrecorded lyrics from a dream team of Americana torchbearers: Jay Farrar (Son Volt), Will Johnson (Centro-matic), Anders Parker (Varnaline), and Yim Yames (My Morning Jacket). What makes this album such a rarity in today’s music world is the allowance of the songs’ infectious simplicity to stand alone in all their glory. In doing so, Farrar, Johnson, Parker, and Yames have paid the greatest compliment to Woody Guthrie and the collaborative spirit he so greatly embodied. This is an album which seamlessly converges the sepia-toned essence of the time honored past with the risks needed to forge the future.