Chris Knight at The Annex

That brutally honest, no-frills philosophy fits his Americana-fueled,
backwoods-grown merger of folk, country, and rock. It’s been at the
backbone of nine studio albums, beginning with 1998’s acclaimed
self-titled debut and traveling through scorchers such as the one-two
punch of 2001’s A Pretty Good Guy and 2003’s The Jealous Kind, two
demo-styled discs (2007’s The Trailer Tapes and 2009’s Trailer II), and
the recent, electric guitar-fortified opus, 2019’s Almost Daylight.

The New York Times called him “the last of a dying breed…a taciturn
loner with an acoustic guitar and a college degree.” USA Today raves
that he’s “a storyteller in the best traditions of Mellencamp and
Springsteen.”