may not have influenced 's knotty, psychedelic Americana as much as other songwriters, but his spirituality did find its way into the band's work, from the catharsis of to the Biblical metaphors in Appropriately, makes his solo debut with a collection of songs, using little more than his vocals and acoustic guitar to re-create the source material. This is a quiet, scaled-down affair, with no traces of 's lush orchestrations or 's infamous slide guitar. Instead, wraps himself in reverb -- a nod to the echoing production of , perhaps, but also a reminder that this EP was recorded in 2001, the same year that spawned the reverb-heavy -- and multi-tracks his own voice into towers of fragile harmonies. once a communal hymn, is stripped of its choral arrangement and turned into a solitary prayer, while ' leaves its Indian homeland in favor of the swampy American backwoods. remains reverent despite those unique touches, however, and (or , or whatever he's calling himself nowadays) sounds fairly fantastic throughout. ~ Andrew Leahey