Son Volt in Concert
Thursday, May 24, 2012 - 9:00pm - Friday, May 25, 2012 - 12:00am
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EmailAfter spearheading the alt country movement with Uncle Tupelo, Jay Farrar pursued his vision with Son Volt, who recorded three landmark albums in the ’90s before the groundbreaking artist put the band on extended hiatus and cut three solo LPs.
Missing the free exchange of ideas and the surprises that inevitably occur when a group of simpatico musicians lock together, Farrar assembled a new lineup of Son Volt in 2004.
American Central Dust, Son Volt’s third album in four years, following ’05’s Okemah and the Melody of Riot and ’07’s The Search, marks the apotheosis of both the Son Volt dynamic and the rigorous aesthetic that distinguishes Farrar’s entire body of work, in which classic and contemporary elements are fashioned into arresting new shapes.
Rarely does a musical work so powerfully capture the zeitgeist of its historical moment while also honoring the traditions of rock & roll with such rawboned grace.
This is a record that cries out to be blasted from car stereos from coast to coast. It’ll do much more than a tank of gas to get the wheels moving again.