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| Jam! |
 Jay Farrar knows how to pick up where he left off. Literally. The first track on his latest album The Search, begins with the same piano figure that closed his 2005 comeback disc Okemah and the Melody of Riot. But the similarities end there.
For this second studio set from his recently reconstituted and reconfigured Son Volt, the singer-guitarist expands the guitar-driven alt-country of his youth with keyboards and horns -- and, more importantly, with the electronic textures and experimental sonics of his solo efforts....full text |
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| Bullz-eye |
| There’s no arguing how far Jay Farrar has come since his days of sharing an apartment with Jeff Tweedy and fronting the now-ancient Uncle Tupelo. Seems like another lifetime ago. With each passing year, and each new Son Volt or Wilco album notched, the pipe dream of a Tupelo reunion becomes more and more just that....full text |
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| LA Daily News |
| Son Volt's fifth album deserves attention. Using a broad canvas and echoes of R.E.M., Derek and the Dominos, Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris, singer-songwriter Jay Farrar dresses up his tunes with horns, car-alarm guitar, warbling piano, pedal steel and lovely keyboard washes. Lyrics can be intriguing, too, with references to guns and education, adrenalin and heresy, highways and cigarettes and, on one song, love. It's just that "The Search" features few characters and little narrative. But the tunes are terrific, whatever they mean....full text |
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