The latest disc opens with the great tune “Fall Hard” which is full of nice guitar and piano. The tune’s message is “you’ve got to fall hard to get the point”, which was definitely learned the hard way:

“I trucked into Montana, three days out of Duluth.

I met a flat chested girl in a Flat Head bar, who said she always spoke the truth.

But liquor makes for liars. Well I guess she only lied to me twice.

Once when she drank all my whiskey, the other when she stole my wife.”

Ouch!  This CD’s required tune about a woman is a great one, Juanita, who sounds like fun:

“I cracked the Sunday dawn, with a Leonard Cohen song.

As I waltzed the wood floor I had nothing on, except……Juanita…..

Stranger and darker than the other girls….Juanita…..

Top of a missionary world.”

The disc is full of interesting and catchy tunes with some great backing.  Another highlight, Something New leans a bit more country, featuring a good dose of pedal steel. Another country tinged tune is “5 Years in Nashville,” which is on Legionnaires’ Disease.  This is the kind of tune some supposed big talent on Music Row would snatch up and record, but of course the cover would be nowhere as good as the original! Catch it before someone else ruins it!