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Wall Street Journal article. On Son Volt’s latest album, “American Central Dust” (Rounder), we hear evidence of Jay Farrar’s evolution as a composer. Compared with what he wrote for the band Uncle Tupelo’s 1990 debut, “No Depression”—in which his words run together, fail to find a seat on the melody and never let the composition coalesce into a complete statement—the 12 songs on the new disc, Son Volt’s eighth, are minimalism set to music. Cheers bonnerj  What “they” are saying. “this is as good a pure Americana album as you’ll hear all year” “the melodic succinctness of the band’s debut album Trace” “his finest work yet” “rarely does a musical work do powerfully capture the zeitgeist of it’s historical moment, while also honoring the traditions of rock & roll with such rawboned grace” Down To The Wire Son Volt Official . . . → Read More: Son Volt – American Central Dust  |
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