Blue Roof Sessions

Somewhere on the shores of Lake Travis, just outside of Austin, there's a house with a blue tile roof. Inside, Kyle Park and his studio band were rattling the walls with one hard-hitting, crank-it-up song after another. This time his sound - raw, heartfelt and rooted in the honest-to-God, real country music, had a tougher edge, a beat that slammed a little harder, guitars that slashed and sliced with a more aggressive attitude. The result is a milestone in Park's catalog. For the first time, he let's his love for rootsy rock breathe through his music. Thundering drums kick off Drive You, a desperate elegy to love lost. There's a swaggering Stones quality to What Goes around Comes Around. The power riffs, searing guitar and vocal breaks of One of These Days sprinkle dashes of Led Zeppelin, Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights and Audioslave to this Southern country/rock stew.