Here's a great, straight-ahead modern day country album. There's real honky tonk blood and guts in this music and singer-guitarist Anders Thomsen is about as real as the deal gets. Thomsen's plummy baritone vocals and twang perfect Telecaster guitar accompaniment fits like a glove with Michael Howard Smith's simple but kickass drumming and Mark Miller's equally succinct bass work. In between the regular tracks are portions of a sermon being delivered by a drunk preacher, surreally great in and of itself. The perfect aural antidote to Garth and Shania, it doesn't get much better than this. ~ Cub Koda, Rovi