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Track Listings
1 | Hearts and Minds |
2 | Brick Walls |
3 | Wild Side |
4 | Down the Highway 4 |
5 | Bakersfield |
6 | Livin' on |
7 | Tears of Change |
8 | Angel of the Blues |
9 | Seawall |
10 | Barricades |
11 | Shine on |
Editorial Reviews
This is Son Volts first album together in over 4 years. Lead singer Jay Farrar was busy being part of the critically acclaimed album NEW MULTITUDES, along with Jim James, which helped to expose him to a whole legion of new fans. Yet for all it's hearkening back to a classic sound, Farrar and company make HONKY TONK feel vital, fresh, and new. First Single: "Heart and Minds".
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 5.8 x 0.22 x 4.92 inches; 1.76 ounces
- Manufacturer : Concord Music Group
- Item model number : 26256545
- Original Release Date : 2013
- Date First Available : January 11, 2013
- Label : Concord Music Group
- ASIN : B00B00HSUO
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #88,957 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #7,056 in Country (CDs & Vinyl)
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That's not to say that Jay Farrar doesn't still sell the grandest of grandiose one-liner lyrics that grapple with themes of redemption and fear. It just means that this time, he's not blasting them from behind a wall of noise with airhorns wailing. It's amazing, listening to songs like "Living On" (heir to "Gather" or "Ten Second News" in terms of glory), or "Barricades" (their most gorgeous, unique offering here), or "Bakersfield" (accompanied by an AM-ready vibrato that shakes underneath its foundation), to realize that they've finally broken free from frivolous comparison. This is, finally, a new Son Volt album worthy of standing alone, free from every clenched fist and tear-stained eye, one whose songs dig deep and don't necessarily need to prove themselves. Free from these constrictions, imagination abounds. "Brick Walls" counts off with a single plucked Telecaster note. "Tears of Change" shuffles late-night car-radio style on an unusually gentle lyric, even for Farrar. Closer "Shine On" is a Farrar classic; its unspoken truths linger long after you've walked away. Moments like that echo from everywhere.
The range of emotion herein is so wide, so profound, that I can't recall a Son Volt album since you-know-when digging this deep. That's no knee-jerk 5-star there - it's well-earned. This is far more than just the melancholy/tribulation of a previous release appropriated for a new landscape, but an assured, dead-on and much needed spring rain.
1. It's not "Straightaways," let alone "Trace."
2. If you find yourself humming songs from those albums, or singing them in the shower, well, you probably won't be doing the same with these songs. I'm not, and I'm pretty sure a few dozen more listens isn't going to alter that reality.
3. If you're like me, your mind will start to wander in the middle of this set, for the songs have a sameness that makes them easy to ignore.
4. For a tribute to the Bakersfield sound, you'd think even dour young Jay Farrar would realize that Buck, Dwight, etc., had a lot more fun with this kind of material.
And I think that's my biggest problem; for all the musical virtuosity on display, there's little sense of mischief, or joy. That may be too much to ask of this band at this point, hence the title of this review, but I find that the Avett Brothers are scratching the itch this band used to, so I can only conclude that, as saccharine as the Avett's occasionally can be, I'm a sucker for the notion that it's good for a band to convey that they enjoy what they're doing. Your mileage may vary. But it strikes me that Son Volt is and has been firmly in that grey area where the Stones and Dylan found themselves, with each new album hailed as a return to form, then found wanting, then put away while we waited for the next one.
Two and one half stars. Wait for the next one.
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Das neueste Werk "Honky Tonk" knüpft nahtlos an dem letzten Longplayer "American Central Dust" an. Allerdings gibt es diesmal 11 lupenreine Country-Songs, fast alle im Midtempo-Bereich angesiedelt. Rockige Songs wie auf den ersten Alben von Son Volt, wie "Drown", "Route" oder "Catching On", gibt es gar keine mehr. Am rockigsten mag noch das famose "Bakersfield" sein. Die rockigen Songs mag der eine oder andere vermissen. Allerdings können die neuen Songs zumindest mich über diesen Mangel hinwegtrösten. Und wer die Sorge hatte, Jay Farrar würde vielleicht nie mehr solch Wahnsinnssongs wie "Windfall", "Tear Stained Eye" oder "Hanging Blue Side" schreiben können, wird positiv überrascht sein von den neuen Songs, denn genau in diesem Stil sind alle Songs auf Honky Tonk angelegt. Auffallend ist noch die Fiddle (von Gary Hunt), die viel stärker wahrnehmbar ist als zuletzt auf "Central Dust". Wie oben bereits angedeutet, ist das Album much more country als "Central Dust" und erst recht als "The Search" und "Okemah...". Einzelne Songs hervorzuheben geht nicht, da alles aus einem Guss ist, vielleicht "Barricades" mit seinen wunderbaren Tempiwechseln.
Wenn es etwas zu kritisieren gibt, dann höchstens die recht kurze Spieldauer von nur knapp über 36 Minuten sowie das sehr einfach gehaltene Booklet, das wie meistens bei Son Volt (leider!!!) keine Texte enthält. Dennoch gibt es von mir diesmal die Höchstpunktzahl, denn kaum eine Band weckt in mir dieses American-Highway-Feeling wie Son Volt und kaum eine Stimme klingt zumindest in meinen Ohren so wohltuend wie die von Jay Farrar.