While the song lyrics are critical of the current state of the country, a glimpse of hope is always present, like the band hopes for a better future. The country rock is slow and down to earth. The song itself really does sound like a combination of Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young. For some listeners, the song might be raising the question, how great is the greatest country on earth? While the video by itself has a nostalgic charm, the song only matches this tune-wise.
All this while Farray sings about other typical things associated with the USA, like freedom and fossil fuels.
The lyrics video shows different typical American cities and landmarks, like Seattle or San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, but also nature that is often associated with the country, like the desert in the South or the cornfields of the mid-west. How can so much wrong happen in this country that’s held up as an example of what’s righteous? Is America the healthiest or happiest country? Democratic Darwinism is the brutal American reality…” I’m just updating and asking similar questions. “Those songs established a thematic tradition.
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Talking about the meaning behind the new song, singer/songwriter Jay Farrar explains, “The song didn’t start out as an intentional homage thing, but in retrospect I see it as a nod to Springsteen’s ‘Born in the USA’ or Neil Young’s ‘Rockin’ In The Free World’,” Farrar says. Find tickets for Son Volt in Seattle on SeatGeek.
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