2008 release, the third solo album by Michael Holland, from Carrboro, North Carolina. Michael"s own musical career started around 1990 when, after a near fatal car accident, he and his twin brother founded the rock band Jennyanykind. Simple Truths and Pleasures is performed with members of the Big Fat Gap Bluegrass Band from NC -- the vast majority of it recorded live in the studio. More traditional than his previous record, the earthly songs reflect influences by Earl Scruggs, Blind Boy Fuller, Mississippi John Hurt, The Carter Family, Doc Watson and especially Hank Williams. The music is a perfect and very melodic mixture of truly timeless Southern musical forms: Acoustic Country, Folk, Bluegrass, Honky Tonk, old time string band, Blues and Gospel, led by Michael Holland"s warm and haunting voice. Many of the song topics are personal and impressionistic, but some are topical in nature and chronicle figures in North Carolina history. These are songs to grow old with.