This is one of those 'so laid back it's horizontal' albums that comes complete with pseudo-soulful grooves and cooing female backing singers.
Think of a mega-mellow mix of James Taylor and Paul Simon and you won't be far off.
Lewis describes himself as a “typical kid with a guitar, going from Nirvana to Bob Dylan” .
The influence of the latter will be obvious to all but any Grungey elements are plainly just the misty memory of a reformed rebel..
He's all grown up now and having moved around a lot as a youth he's found his true home in Nashville.
There, surrounded by Music City's "finest session musicians" he barely needs to break sweat as he glides through twelve tunes of super-chilled folk-blues.
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The sidemen (and women) include guitarists Darrell Scott & Will Kimbrough, harmonica 'legend' Mickey Raphael ,Gabe Dixon on keyboard, and vocal group, The McCrary Sisters.
These cats can play and Lewis can sing but tracks like She's A Friend, Reinventing The Blues and Texas just sound like they're all on auto-pilot.
File under: Tediously Tasteful.
Sam Lewis' website
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