Pruitt is a former member of Shiloh Fivecoat, who, judging from the MP3s available on Pruitt?s website (www.dannypruitt.com), had a kind of TW Walsh thing going on. Pruitt?s solo work, though, is more indebted to singer-songwriters like Richard Buckner, at least on this 2004 album. To me, Buckner sets a high standard for those who try the post-Townes-Van-Zandt approach these days, because of his arresting sonic approach: that dry, dry atmosphere, guitar and voice competing to get right in your ear. Pruitt opts for a less edgy approach, recalling nothing so much as Nebraska on most of these songs, particularly the affecting opener ?Aubade in D.? He varies the palette with what sounds like a Moog on the gentle ?Instrumental,? but he mostly sticks with acoustic guitar and harmonica. He paints evocative lyrical pictures on songs like ?Codeine Dreams,? but he neatly employs a more impressionistic approach on ?Nocturne,? a brief but beautiful muttering. An untitled piece follows after a brief pause, a transgression in album formatting that I will forgive because the music is an understated gem. 7/10 -- Sal Addays (26 September, 2005)