had a demonstrated affinity for country music, as heard on such recordings as and he sounded as modestly comfortable on this Nashville-recorded session as in any other musical context. The cream of the city's session players backed up the former on a set of newly written songs, and the result was a typical country effort, pleasant as long as you didn't expect too much. Of course, this was the second straight genre exercise for , following his pop standards album , and now he had tackled two styles that depend on vocal stylists for much of their appeal. On both, was . But with fading into history, his suddenly front-burner solo career was starting to look like a series of dabblings rather than a coherent follow-up to the group's success. What could be next, an album of songs? Wisely, he returned to -style pop/rock in subsequent releases. [ was reissued on August 1, 1995, by with two bonus tracks, which had been released as the B-side of the single and the six-and-a-half-minute impromptu instrumental which was previously unreleased.] ~ William Ruhlmann