(Alt-Country, Folk, Electric Blues) Delaney Davidson - Lucky Guy - 2015, MP3, 320 kbps

#777Lucky Guy, Delaney Davidson's seventh solo album, while holding many similarities to Delaney's previous work, has something else about it, something perhaps somewhat less strange, and decidedly less dark.
Essentially it is the same musical entity, just leaner and with other features accentuated. It remains modern yet somehow classic, familiar yet properly outsider. It remains soulful, yet with moments when it seems as if that soul may be a little broken.
It remains dressed in a nice suit, yet on closer inspection that suit is slightly rumpled and a bit threadbare in places. It still walks into the sunlight when it can convince itself to do so, yet sometimes a small personal gray cloud hovers just above its head.
Lucky Guy's twelve songs weep and smile simultaneously, a fitting contradiction, as is the album title, which is the opposite of Davidson's 2011 release Bad Luck Man.