New Releases
Bonnie Raitt & Friends
Bonnie Raitt
Gigantour DVD Featuring Megadeath
Various Artists
Sweet Warrior
Richard Thompson
So Real: Songs From Jeff Buckley
Jeff Buckley
A Tribute to Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell
Memory Almost Full
Paul McCartney
NOW That's What I Call Music! Vol. 25
Various Artists
KISSology: Volume Two 1978-1991
Greatest Hits
Sly and The Family Stone
The Very Best of Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger
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Son Volt
Son Volt returns with 'The Search' on Transmit Sound/Legacy, in stores March 6!
'The Search' is by far the band's most daring and diverse album yet. The follow-up to 2005's acclaimed 'Okemah and the Melody of Riot', 'The Search is a startlingly powerful and inspiring departure from the band's alt-country laden records, employing an exceptional variety of sounds, melodies, and arrangements.
Laced with Eastern-style electric guitar and Farrar's signature vocals, the tune fades out to silence only to dive into 'The Picture,' a track that features an upbeat Memphis-style horn section combined with stirring lyrics that reflect on the current and future state of things, "when war is profit and profit is war." There's the buzzing, Zeppelin-esque guitar of "Action"; the hypnotic, other-worldly riff of "Circadian Rhythm"; the vocal harmonizing of chanteuse Shannon McNally on "Highways and Cigarettes"; and the Big Brother commentary of title track "The Search," a solid rock song delivered as only Son Volt can.

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