's has a clever conceit: it's a collection of songs about records, delivered in an era when even the CD is beginning to seem like a relic. contains 25 songs, to be exact, most dating from the '50s, mostly country, mostly relatively obscure even when they're by big-name artists, as is represented by his first single, and has Obscure is hardly a bad thing, particularly in a set like this, which is indeed targeted at listeners who have an undying fondness for the golden age of the 45 even if they were born several decades after it existed. And for those listeners, is a bit of a blast. It contains few great songs -- indeed, is the closest -- but it has some pretty great obscurities, like ' dead-on impression on the very funny ; 's rocking ; the jumping blues of ' ; the spare, echoey, and silly by ; the absurd instructional novelty of ; and 's almost prophetic All of these would pepper a college radio set list quite nicely, and that's the point of the whole thing: it's a record for collectors to introduce to other collectors. Either you get it or you don't, and if you do, there's no way you'll be disappointed in this. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine