In Brief

The singer-songwriter’s follow-up to his 1999 bluegrass excursion with Ralph Stanley is a rip-snorting, vintage-sounding honky-tonk record. He masterfully walks the line between commercial and alternative country with songs that keep things simple without turning simple-minded, and that he sings with spontaneity and utter conviction. *

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