Jesse Colin Young - The Highway Is for Heroes

Jesse Colin Young returned to record-making after five years with this modestly produced, largely acoustic effort, on which his singing had taken on a breathy expressivenes and his acoustic guitar-playing (doubtless due to years of playing solo shows) had become more dominant and accomplished. Despite the time between records, Young did not fill the album with new originals -- among the nine tracks, three (T-bone Walker's "T-Bone Shuffle," "Do It Slow," and "Before You Came") were remakes, one ("When You Dance") was a cover, and two others were co-written. Read More