Legendary country crooner (inspired by Roy Acuff, in case you were curious) does an album as his saintly, god-praising alter-ego, conversationally laying out one simply-structured rhyming ballad after another.
And, that's about it. There's not a ton of wit here, not a lot of musical wizardry or energy, just Williams laying out the tales, going on about the lord and morality and tales of warning and tragedy and woe. Some of it is done with a gallows-humor wink, as on the "my wife is gone, my dog is dead" style country wanderer Everything's Ok, but this is humor about as winning and the music as inspired as on Pixar's Boundin', surely the least-charming of their shorts.
I've been impressed with how well a lot of this old rock and roll and roots stuff has held up, how relevant and vibrant it still sounds in 2012, but this is an exception, sounding hokey and dated and well left behind 2/5.
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