Seven years after The Moon Was Blue, country legend Bobby Bare unhurriedly ambled along with the follow-up. At 77, Bare took an approach similar to Johnny Cash's American Recordings (gravelly and gravitas-laden delivery, stripped-down arrangements, and a grab bag of mostly cover tunes) and achieved an equally impressive end result. If anything, Bare's amiably charismatic tone had gained in character since his '70s heyday. Here, his versions of everything from traditional tunes like "House of the Rising Sun" and "Shenandoah" to U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" are near-definitive.