Song · Son Volt
“Windfall” by Son Volt
From the album Trace (1995)
“Windfall” by Son Volt appears on 16 radio countdowns from 7 stations between 2001 and 2026. It was first released in 1995 on the album Trace. Its best result is #83 on The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #527 indie & aaa song of all time and #268 of the '90s.
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Jay Farrar wrote "Windfall", words and music, for Trace, the first Son Volt album, which Warner Bros. Records released on September 19, 1995, with Brian Paulson producing alongside the band. Farrar had formed Son Volt the year before, once the influential alt-country band Uncle Tupelo broke up, and the album arrived with a lot riding on it: there had been open debate over whether his new band or Wilco, the other group to rise from Uncle Tupelo's breakup, would make the better record.
Trace held up its end. Critics liked it, it sold well, and by 2009 it had moved 297,000 copies in the US, outselling Wilco's A.M. two to one, though the rock-radio chart hit was "Drown", not "Windfall".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
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