The aggregation really hits their stride on the Bad Company-like classic rocker "Why Don't You Smile" where Helge doles out advice to a perennially-depressed fellow over a slow, bluesy lope that's punctuated by a couple of hot guitar solos from Charlton.

"Fighting Demons," with jangling acoustic guitar and a high-lonesome harmonica part, has an Americana bent as does "Little Brother" but the band is knee deep in the blues with a cover of the Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup chestnut "Mean Ol' Frisco" and an especially slinky take on Woody Guthrie's "Vigilante Man."