There are times when you hear an album by someone you have never heard of and you end up chasing down everything else in their back catalogue. Then again, there are times when you don't and, unfortunately, "The Road to Nashville" - the third album from Danish recording artist Emil Friis - fell into the latter category.
It's not that the songs are bad (for they aren't) and they all seem to fit into an area of John Hiatt meets Chris Isaak atmospheric melancholy. The songs are even played well with "Lions" and Paper Moon" standing out as markers of restrained good taste. The problem was that I just couldn't get to grips with Emil Friis's quivering, wavering sub Dylan vocal style. Perhaps it was just an unfortunate choice of vocal affectation to suit the material but he just sounded awkward and soon irritated.
A shame as those songs could have been special in someone else's hands.