is as out of place with 2005's as he was with his debut, 2003's . Via word of mouth and some radio play, he has managed to find his way in with the adult crowd, who helped put into the Top 20 of the chart. His kind of is kicked-back with sparse arrangements made elegantly rich with starlit keyboards, subtle guitar flicks, and feminine vocals. Understated but assured, his vocals exhibit a lot of range despite almost always remaining at the volume of a bedroom whisper. So he's really out place in the early 2000s, not stylistically disparate from what you'd hear late at night on a station in the late '70s or early '80s. On , there's no stab taken at finding a younger or different audience. You could slip any of these songs between 's and without fear of disrupting the tone or mood. 's guest harmonica on keeps the connections to and grown folks' music, but -- the songwriter behind the two older songs mentioned above, not to mention heaps of other classics -- would be the ultimate dream collaborator for . The two would suit each other perfectly. ~ Andy Kellman