Personnel: Pat McGrath (acoustic guitar); Troy Lancaster (electric guitar); Russ Pahl (steel guitar); Michael Rojas (keyboards); Jimmy Lee Sloas (acoustic bass); Dennis Holt (drums); Eric Darken (percussion); Chip Davis (background vocals).
Rootsy country singer Trent Tomlinson's songs of barroom brawls, drinking, love, and loss are set against a stripped-down backdrop of rock & roll twang on his full-length debut. Though songs like "Hey Batter Batter," about your basic bar fight, and "The Next Time," about your equally straightforward misguided one-night-stand, might peg him as the poster boy for juiced-up, skirt-chasin' rednecks, Tomlinson is no muscle-bound country meathead. His sensitive side is on open display on "A Good Run," as well as "Angels Like Her," whose smart lyrics accurately conjure the ruins of a love affair, and he charts the rocky courses of both romance and hangovers with equal flair.