Opening your album with the line “laid up in the house full of hookers and wine” is a pretty good way to get the listener’s attention, but you still have to keep it. And, on this, his second release, the Kentucky country singer-songwriter does that effortlessly, both on that opening track, the swampy chug of ‘Ballad Of 1892’ with its “bad times ahead and good times behind”, and throughout the whole album.
