With “Valentine” we get a staccato hot heavy bass, Bare’s warble and a pedal steel crying over the top. The lyrically thick wry autobiographical “Visit Me In Music City” is here with its poppy beat (and again sweet pedal steel) and harmony vocals as is the slushy swingy “Sad Smile” with the players cresting a wave behind Bobby; things get sounding like The Monkees at the end. There are moments here too where it is just Bobby Bare, Jr. and his acoustic, like on “Mayonnaise Brain,” the more metallic and biting “One Of Us Has Got To Go” or the satirically silly “Rock and Roll Halloween.”

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