
Given his unstinting schedule with Gov’t Mule (who themselves have released two albums in the past three years) and as a guest player for everyone from Dolly Parton to Edgar Winter to Blackberry Smoke during the same period, it’s little wonder that this Allman Brothers alumnus hasn’t managed to make a record under his own name since 2015. That time away from the solo spotlight seems to have allowed him to craft some songs of deep-pile quality here, though, and not just numbers built as instrumental showcases.