If you are only a little bit into country, I think you might still enjoy this record. Travis is always in fine voice even though he is more of the traditional country singer. Some of the folks he reminds me of most had a little pop culture success themselves without losing the roots-Lefty Frizell and George Jones. Randy does a song called Oh, What a time to be me, and it almost has a Jimmie Rodgers sound with the horns added. There really are a lot of honky-tonk qualities in here with Better Class of losers and Allergic to the blues which are favorites of mine. High Lonesome is just a great example of a perfect country song it´s simple and it shows how beautiful country can be, the mandolins and all. It has some ballads and it shows off what Travis can do and every aspect of his sound too I think. The songs go from lots of instrumentation to minimal instrumentation, and in all between. And there is back up singing here and I personally don´t care for back up singing in gene.