Having been cleared earlier in the year in another lawsuit concerning the supposedly suicide-inducing subject matter of his music, reinvigorated his sound and expanded his following with his sixth studio album, , in the fall of 1991. Finding more sympathetic producers in and to replace (who had helmed his last effort, 1988's ), collaborating with of on four songs, and retaining the services of guitarist , brought his music into the '90s. Songs like had an energetic, contemporary sound, and effectively changed gears to turn out gentle like which gave him his first U.S. Top 40 hit on his own. Not cowed by his court cases, he wrote songs about child abuse ( ) and serial murder ( ) from the point of view of the criminals. But he also considered his own place in the general scheme of things in the tribute to the lifestyle and the reflective It all made for an unusually broad range of material, and the album returned him to the Top Ten and multi-platinum status. ~ William Ruhlmann