COWBOY JUNKIES AND SON VOLT

Armed with their own songs and a handful of well-selected covers, Margo Timmins, her songwriting brother and their fellow band mates gathered around a single microphone in a small Toronto church and pushed "record." Twenty years later, the Cowboy Junkies' The Trinity Session is looked upon as a seminal record that helped define the alt-country movement and quietly influenced a generation of musicians (AP). Their experience shows in their confident playing, the stretching of the melodies and rhythms, and the maturity and more nuanced timbre of Margo Timmins' voice.

The Search, the fifth album by St. Louis-based artist Jay Farrar under the Son Volt nameplate, takes the singer’s signature juxtapositions of the arcane and the modern to provocative extremes, contrasting the blue highways of a disappearing cultural landscape with a perilous world in which the center no longer holds – a world of information overload, of clueless leaders carrying out sinister agendas, of “Hurricanes in December – earthquakes in the heartland/Bad air index on a flashing warning sign,” as the artist sings ruefully on “The Picture.”

Additional Information:

• Cowboy Junkies website
• Son Volt website