Fans of stripped-down country will want to hoist a cold one to newcomer Darryl Worley and Hard Rain Don't Last, whose repertoire veers between honky-tonk with a bluegrass heart and Haggardesque meditations on disillusionment and loss. In this Nashvegas world, that makes him almost a lone warrior, tilting at windmills with banjo and pedal steel. B+


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