yes, it IS a Wyoming sound track..
Lover's Lane Boogie and a roaring fire, friends, beer, the kind of rowdiness a campfire in the mountains brings..
Me and Genghis Khan once the embers have burned down a little and the rowdies have retired to their tents, as ballads and love songs take over from barrelhouse rockers.
Helgagaten with the stars shining overhead. Late, quiet, when it is just me, the moon, my thoughts and this music. 
But not just Wyoming - don't be mistaken. This is wide ranging music..
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This cd makes me feel like a grifter in a movie who's been getting kicked around a while, but has stumbled on something that will change his life. The perfect con, the perfect-imperfect woman, news of a rigged horse race. It leads you to feel that feeling good about life is a guilty pleasure. That salvation isn't always far from a barstool. 

I wish people heard J's songs when they saw me walking down the street. It'd bee a hell of a soundtrack, the right soundtrack.
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An album which for me is very honest and driving, in rhythm and attitude, essentially positive. It cheers you up without being silly. I find it cool, at times brilliant, fun and funny, a combination of serious and amusing. The guitarplaying is great, with lots of variation and personal touch, and so is the working on the songs. It is a good mixture between driving rhythm and more calm songs.

As with many other artists, you find the same kind of rhythm in the different songs returning, but there is nothing wrong with that, it’s only familiar and nice. Makes you wanna dance. The songs are mature, because the man who composed them is mature; he’s not a kid who, no matter how brilliant he may be, can’t get away from his immaturity. The album is cozy, perfect for a car trip or for being played over and over again, weekend after weekend, on a local pub somewhere in Wyoming.

Many lines get stuck in your head (and so do the riffs). He comes some: “Dancing drinking and crying, lonesome lovesick and blue… smoking laughing and lying, to myself, the world and to you… found the keys to life my friend but I dropped them underneath my bar stool”, “oh Lord, why did you give so many so few?”, “if it's good enough for you, it's good enough for me”.

At times I think the songs deserve a better recording, but they still come along great.  Sometimes the whole thing reminds me – I don’t know why - of a great street band, unknown, unrecorded, but oh so great. There is something classical about this album.

The material album in itself – that which you can hold in your hand – is simple and beautifully designed. It’s pleasant, but I miss the lyrics printed out. I always miss the lyrics when they are not there, it’s like as if half the songs, or the maps to the songs, are not there.
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”It´s all good. True blue. Well fuck the world, I love you…”
This smashing album gives you 14 great tunes of superb americana at its best. Boogie, alt-country, rock, you name it. This machine is loaded with IT!

This is an album for all of your – well not really sure how many you are – who really like real music, performed by real people, written by a real person telling his (or her) tale about things the way he (or she) sees it.

Every song is so crammed with wit, beautiful melody, great musicianship that you just wanna hear it over and over again.

But if I´m to chose, sentimental as I am, I go for the ballads – Me & Genghis Khan, Outsider. But all these songs are top notch – and if you miss out, the worse for you.

Hawk/The Plastic Pals
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