Son Volt - "Drown" from Conan O'Brien - April 4, 1996
From my VHS archives comes this recording of Son Volt playing live on Late Night With Conan O'Brien in April 1996. I believe this might be Son Volt's first national TV appear, promoting the Trace album which had been released in Autumn 1995. I haven't found this particular performance elsewhere on YouTube, so this may be something of a rarity. Sadly, I didn't always get a great signal for my local NBC station and I was using a lesser quality VCR by this point (one which recorded only in mono). So we're stuck here with an image with plenty of ghosting and a mono soundtrack. But the sound is still decent and the image is still watchable, so I figured it was worth sharing regardless. Enjoy!
About Son Volt
Son Volt is an American rock band formed in 1994 by Jay Farrar after the breakup of Uncle Tupelo. The band's current line-up consists of Farrar, Andrew DuPlantis, John Horton (guitar), Mark Patterson (drums), and Mark Spencer. In addition to playing alternative rock, the band is considered a staple of the alternative country rock movement of the 1990s. The band's sound also is rooted in folk rock and Americana. The band went on an indefinite hiatus in 2001, before reforming in 2004.
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