Album Review: J Roddy Walston & The Business - Essential Tremors

From the gut-punch opening of Heavy Bells to the tribal beats and chants of Sweat Shock to the quiet beauty of Boys Can Never Tell to the jaunty romp that is Black Light, J Roddy Walston & The Business make sure you never get too comfortable with Essential Tremors, and that's its greatest strength. Part blues, part Southern rock, part whatever they want to be at any given moment, it's rough, it's raw, it's earnest, road-worn and lived in. Most of all, Essential Tremors is undeniably real.