Poisonville (2012)

His voice is like Johnny Cash's without the gravitas; his songs like John Prine's without the whimsy. And some of them would bring a smile to Eminem — like ''Room 100,'' about a guy who wakes up in a motel, hung over and hoping he won't find ''a dagger stickin' from a gash in his girlfriend's thigh.'' But he does. Highlight: ''Born in 1947,'' a country rap in which Ronny Elliott offers a revisionist history of rock & roll with the chorus, ''Now the radio has gone to hell/And Hank Williams has gone to heaven.'' But, bless his own doomed soul, on Poisonville he doesn't sound too sure about the Hank part.