This marks the sixth release for Minnesota's Dan Israel, and it's essentially a solo effort. Recorded in his basement, with drums and organ backup from David Russ and Peter Sands, Israel handles the rest of the work by himself, writing, vocals, guitars, bass, and piano. While being a physical departure from Hayden's Ferry Records, this an Eclectone Records production, it's still got that rootsy rock feel of his earlier work. He has been, questionably to me, compared to Tom Petty. OK, he's got some of the same nasal harmonics in his voice, like Petty, and, he does use some similar rhythms and song structures, but I don't think that Tom has a copyright on those items, just like Strauss couldn't preempt the waltz after writing “The Blue Danube”. And, more importantly, he's doing a lot more productive things with his talent: his lyrics are crafted to say something, rather than to provide fluff for a guitar line, e.g. as in “Don't Turn Away”. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, and you can't build a song in its entirety around a hookish guitar riff. If your tastes run to literate takes on familiar themes, without a lot of fanfare, then this one's up your alley.