The first couple cuts on East Texan Clay Walker´s seventh album are merely the sort of breathy, overwrought generic power-pop country ballads that too often clog up the country charts like bad cholesterol these days. Fortunately, things quickly brighten as Walker veers masterfully back to his honky-tonk roots. His rich, earnestly stoic baritone lends itself particularly well to earthy, Friday-night-at-the-dancehall numbers like "If You Ever Feel Like Lovin´ Me Again" and the sorrowful "Could I Ask You Not to Dance." Along the way, Baker also serves up some sprightly Texas swing on the aptly named "Texas Swing," which he cowrote, and a delightfully fiery and dead-on rendition of the 1959 Ritchie Valens standard "La Bamba."