Singer/songwriting rocker Bones Owens likes to take control. From riding his motorcycle to each gig to playing nearly all the instruments on this, his third album, and producing it (for the first time), Owens grabs the reins of his own success on this collection. For Best Western, he wraps some glam (“In the Wind” could be a T. Rex B-side), harder-edged garage rock (“Talkin’ Loud”), blues (“Silver Spoon Blues”) and psychedelic folk (“Here Is Not My Home”), with convincing, soulful but never over-sung vocals for 50 minutes of gutsy, plugged-in Americana.
Owens doesn’t believe in excess; only one of these 15 tracks breaks the four-minute mark as he sticks with rugged guitar/drums/bass instrumentation and a few unobtrusive keyboards.

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