Falling Cars and Junkyard Dogs

In this collection of beautifully crafted autobiographical vignettes that encompasses everything from the people Jay Farrar has met and the places he’s journeyed over 20 years as a traveling musician, to his formative childhood experiences, to his parents’ cultural identity as Missouri Ozarks.

As a child, he marveled at the eccentric habits and mannerisms of his father, though it has taken over 40 ...