was an interesting idea pitched to : paying tribute to the myriad of bands, players, and musical styles that have influenced him not by doing covers, but by recycling the riffs and feel of those influences and crafting originals out of them. No surprise, is more of the same, though with some choices that may surprise people. does a great job of evoking with nice acoustic playing and harmonized guitars. His tribute to the music of the starts with a 12-string intro and ends up somewhere near and is a well put together tip to , where drummer does a good . supplies the bombast of has the quirky construction of post- . The somewhat surprising choices are the piece and the / hoedown 's salute to is right on target: superficially pretty yet ultimately bland, and the only real misstep on the album. really shows what a versatile player is, and why he's been a member of bands as disparate as , , and . ~ Sean Westergaard