Son Volt - Livin' In The USA - Official Lyric Video

[@montemichelbleu]

"Money flows through every back-channel door Cash crowns the king, there's no limits anymore Where the rule of law is now up for sale Where wealth and privilege buy a ticket out of jail " Yep, you nailed it Jay. His sentencing was postponed today.

[@cliftonlewis3507]

Best SV song in years, and I’ve been a fan of Jay since the days of Uncle Tupelo!

[@palosiadhail921]

Some things in life are just meant to be... A world without Son Volt? Fuck that.... Keep on taming that head-storm Jay... your work really matters👍

[@michaelthomsen1797]

Thank you. I don't even live in the USA, but this is sublimely kick-ass.

[@eloisahelenalonghi4646]

Me too, I think the same way!

[@DEShaf87]

Don't lose hope

[@jerrywinters6914]

Well said Jay Farrar, well said !

[@giovanniscarpelliband]

Grande Jay!!

[@ChopperMpls]

Beautiful and timely. Another Son Volt instant classic.

[@shawnbutzin4150]

This is a great tune!

[@jonathanpranitis3533]

WHAT a TUNE !!!....but THE WORDs, THE WORDs...want lots MORE FROM JAY !!

[@WitnessTrueSorcery]

The Americana vibe in this track is heart-melting! Jay and company, you guys are giving hope through your music. I mean it! I need more hope and so do lots and lots of people in this madhouse we all find ourselvse in. By the way, I bought your book "Falling Cars and Junkyard Dogs" quite recently. Will dive into it and devour it in no time! One day I will live in The USA! P.S. Can't wait to hear the rest of the songs from "Electro Melodier" when it comes out.

[@elsupremo3651]

Damn fine song. Great vid. Jay continues to deliver the goods.

[@edwardbass473]

Great song.

[@garrygballard8914]

Tks for this. Our principles from the 60’s that got sold for the almighty dollar.

[@jeromemurphy7018]

This is some kinda great tune and the vid is extra special. Looking forward to the new release. Son Volt please head to the Northeast ASAP.

[@ericmckean3988]

Pittsburgh 3/1/22 at Mr Smalls Theater

[@bpalpha]

Good gravy! I love Jay Farrar! Son Volt, Uncle Tupelo, Wilco...all the above...i'm on board. Stellar stuff man!

[@MarkParker]

Love it.

[@BradfordtheEclectic]

A stunning song with powerful lyrics and compelling imagery.

[@g00glyelm0]

You are brave. I take heart from your music. Let us "soldier on" and make this country what the framers (some of them, not all) imagined and proferred it might become.

[@spider_hoss]

3:07 Kitty Hawk Pier, Outer Banks, NC

[@jimingram2702]

Excellence. Music & Video.

[@actionsub]

Grew up in the same city as Farrar. I'm ashamed to say that after all the years of Uncle Tupelo, etc., I've only recently become acquainted with their music.

[@tia2all501]

I love Jay’s book! Great story teller from a man of few words

[@klausstoffelen8515]

great Album....great Band..

[@TizianoToniutti]

Great Mellencamp vibes!

[@craigestlinbaum5188]

What an awful take! Farrar is a singular talent with a 30+ year body of work.

[@TizianoToniutti]

@@craigestlinbaum5188 I'm a fan of Farrar and his work from when "Looking for a way out" was called "There was a time". My comment was just a sincere appreciation for this song, that imho fits perfectly with the best tunes of this very peculiar kind, namely Springsteen's "Born in the Usa" and Mellencamp's "Pink Houses", to which I feel this (beautiful) Farrar song somewhat connects. Songs that ring true about actual living in the Usa, each one for the time in which they were written. I'm loving what I've heard till now of Electro Melodier, sorry if it wasn't clear enough.

[@hammill444]

You couldn't be more right in terms of the lyrics. And that's not really a compliment

[@carlbowden4712]

One Damn fine well written song

[@jakebivona6968]

Wonderful song. Tips its hat to Buffalo Springfield's For What It's Worth

[@ergotot45]

Truly xlnt

[@sugarseas]

❤️

[@rafaelrubiodiaz]

TREMENDO VIDEO Y TREMENDO ULTIMO TRABAJO DE SO VOLT

[@mcparlandt]

Where's the Philly?

[@mcparlandt]

Brother Mann -.

[@mindlesspaul]

Great song and excellent video, but why are there Dutch windmills from the Zaanse Schans in the Netherlands at 2.48 in the video?

[@sugadrops4998]

Green new deal great reset N W O now living in the U S A

[@sugadrops4998]

Sad days in America when no one sees the truth even when it’s right in front of our eyes take it off the shelf and put it in our heads Jay Farrar is a American messenger the messages are in many of his songs

[@Oldsaltybarber]

🇺🇸

[@redbug3777]

Great American Music, Thank you so much!

[@garrygballard8914]

U.S.A. Sold its soul for a dollar.

[@Dreyno]

Half Barry Maguire and half Springsteen. Love it.

[@craigestlinbaum5188]

Wrong and wrong again. All Jay Farrar.

[@Dreyno]

@@craigestlinbaum5188 Yeah. No shit Sherlock. I know who Son Volt are.

[@gabrielj9776]

👁♥️ this y’all. I heard it yesterday. I love this other one2. 🛤. 💎🚬 💟. Don’t worry about fossil fuels it’s just old dead stuff in the earth that is heated, actually the same stuff comes out of volcanos 🌋 what time is it? I got to go to town to see if they got that purple stuff at the farm store. The government might of outlawed it?? Have a lovely day. 🪟

[@hammill444]

Who wrote the clunky lyrics, John Mellencamp? Good grief. Farrar has at times been pretty crafty about social commentary in his songs. Clearly, he's lost his deft touch, pining as he does here for an America that, quite frankly, never quite existed in the way he thinks it did as presented here, for many. Pretty broad nuance free take. Its certainly no " Out of the picture".

[@Truthmoses]

keep coming back.

[@hammill444]

@@Truthmoses What does that even mean?

[@Truthmoses]

@@hammill444 just keep coming back.

[@concatinate]

Yeah, but more like he's pining for a silly magic-thinking *future* America that (given the ingredients at hand) will NEVER exist.

[@hammill444]

@@concatinate Agreed. This is the work of an esteemed songwriter who has spent time delving deep into Woody Guthrie? Pretty weak. Sounds more like a play for the mainstream in a way he never really has before.

[@hollowaang5284]

LET'S GO BRANDON!!

[@kennymiller902]

Get a life!

[@curragh4635]

@@kennymiller902 if you support that 🤡 you should be ashamed of yourself.

[@elidavidson5503]

Grow up. You know Jay isn't conservative right?

[@roblowry5676]

​@elidavidson5503 kind of like when Reagan try to steal the song Born in the USA which was promptly shut down buy springsteen. Then he tried to steal pink houses for his campaign events, and John Cougar said I think he better listen to those lyrics a little more carefully Mr president. I don't understand why patriotism and loving your country has to fit one cookie cutter perspective. What makes this country great is that we have diverse perspectives and if we don't allow those different perspectives to work things out, it might just be the end of this country. But I have hope that we are going to get through these times, where one candidate is running on vindication, personal gain, fear and hatred.