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hile 2005's Okemah and the Melody of Riot made for a potent reboot for Son Volt, that record hasn't proven indicative of the band's overall direction in the years since. Its follow-up, The Search, was overstuffed with ill-fitting production tricks, and the band's latest effort, American Central Dust, returns to the more pared-down alt-country of Son Volt's 1990s incarnation. While frontman Jay Farrar was instrumental in defining the alt-country scene, the problem with Dust is that, in the intervening years since Son Volt first rose to prominence, that scene has been bogged down by countless dreary, soundalike albums and...