If you’re riding with Jack White, you’d best buckle up. He’s going to take more sharp turns in one album than most artists dare in a career.

You might expect a rootsy track called “21+” to focus on hell raising in a fictional saloon. Butch Walker does something different.

Steve Cropper grew up around the sounds he was asked to play during a memorable ‘Blues Brothers’ segment at a country bar. That wasn’t the issue.

Lucinda Williams’ ‘Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone’ is an expection to the rule of double albums being full of filler. This one is all killer.

Willie Nelson’s presence here means a debt has finally been repaid.

Two albums into his solo career, Sturgill Simpson remains one of the most interesting characters in country music.

White’s “old, yet new” vibe again has him brilliantly mixing seemingly unrelated styles.

Here’s a voice so entrancing that it delays my processing of the delivered lyrics.

Willie Nelson sounds at peace. At peace with where he’s been but, even more importantly, where he’s headed.

“Sweet Amarillo” brings Old Crow Medicine Show back to their roots, while reminding us of what country music used to be – and what it could be again.