"What can we do to counter divisions in the United States?" That's the question frontman Jay Farrar asked himself when making this Son Volt record. The answer lay in music that provides support and conveys the power of love and time. The country group's ninth album was therefore recorded at the Mother Jones Museum (a museum founded in honor of Mary Harris Jones, a famous union leader) and the Woody
… Guthrie Center (dedicated to protest singer Woodrow Wilson Guthrie). Especially in the lyrics you hear the politically charged message. This is how the differences in incomes, whistleblower Edward Snowden and the immigrant issue are sung about. On this ninth record the band shows the blues rock from (2017) more loose. This makes the music sound lighter, but the message that Farrar and his band members convey is by no means. (JvQ)more
