Pat Haney, like singer-songwriter Chris Knight, his contemporary and fellow Kentuckian, has starkly cast himself in the swaggering, hard country-rockin" Steve Earle school of loser"s bravado and small-town hard knocks. But Haney shows a slightly bleaker streak than Knight or Earle on songs like the darkly prophetic title tune and other despairing tales of shattered lives and misplaced loves like "Nursing Home," "Fifteen Years," and the grimly humorous "Come On Back to Bowling Green" (the last one written by Tommy Womack). These songs and other unadulterated Haney-penned confessionals like "Hey There Mister," "Nothin" but You," and "Southern Witch" are illuminated more by the somber, roughhewn poetry of irresolution, loss, bitterness, and confusion than the sometimes less alluring forces of light and closure. --Bob Allen