Those "Harlem River Blues" just don't give me a break. I'm tellin you it creeps on you quick wiith it's pretty quick beat and twangy strumming. "One More Night In Brooklyn" has Justin Townes Earle fed up with the place, and ready to leave; a slow sentimental tune with his acoustic guitar,but not played every seconfd through the whole song. "Move Over Mama," this bluesy beat may have me bob my head so much it will fall off; I don't know if this will help, do you have a tie?"Working For The MTA" is a song of working underground, not having seen the sun in almost a week, and starting to develop a sensitivity to the sun; not in the lyrics, but that is bound to happen."Wanderin" has this driving handclap beat lead by the harmonica, and has nice guitar srumming. I cannot understand why I keep "Slippin' and Slidin," someone must have waxed the floor, but I didn't know you could do that with a horn section and nice slow beat. "Christchurch Woman" has me "Learning To Cry," with driving folk beat and those strings, and occasional acoustic strum. That harmonica "Ain't Waitin" for the end of the song, and neither is that twangy blues guitar solo,but you figure if the song is only 2:10, they need to get to business quickly. "Rogers Park"is a senimental place with an earnest delivery, and steady beating of the some piano over the horizon where you are meeting someone to drown as dirty water's gonna turn you over in "Harlem River Blues (Reprise)"a short 0:26 second singalong with that small choir of friends singing some depressing lyrics, but which does not sound so bad. Again, IfIHad to choose 7Songs I wOuld: Harlem River Blues, Move Over Mama, Wanderin', Slippin' and Slidin', Learning To Cry, Ain't Waitin', Rogers Park. 
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