Album Review: Diesel - Americana

Given the musical style of Diesel and the universal adoration for many of the original songs filling Americana, it's a surprise to see it fall.

Diesel easily inserts his playing influence into the music, but seems to remove something greater from each song also. Ring Of Fire no longer has the stern, dry and stiff-lipped charm of the Cash meeting a sweet backing harmony, the same way that Bruce Springsteen's Born To Run aches for a burning chorus.

Though the honky tonk rock of Rag Mama Rag is a pleasant change, it's ultimately not enough to redeem the album.