The Flatlanders - Now Again

On Now Again, the reunited Flatlanders' mix of traditional country, Townes Van Zandt-like troubadourism, and cowboy mysticism remains unquestionably intact and vital.

The group's three-part harmonies are employed to maximum effect on the sparkling, '60s-pop-inflected Julia. Waving My Heart Goodbye and My Wildest Dreams Grow Wilder Every Day show the band's knack for adding witty lyrics to honky-tonk grooves.

The Joe Ely-sung I Thought the Wreck Was Over is a light-hearted romp that utilizes Ely's trademark roughneck vocal style well,  though the otherworldly tremolo of the group's most affecting singer Jimmie Dale Gilmore is the dominant vocal element.

Butch Hancock's metaphysical, post-Dylan lyrics emblazon themselves most strongly on the listener's mind, however, almost all the songs on Now Again are group-penned and show the work of a truly collaborative outfit once more at the peak of its considerable powers.

• Going Away
• Julia
• Wavin' My Heart Goodbye
• Down In The Light Of The Melon Moon
• Right Where I Belong
• My Wildest Dreams Grow Wilder Everyday
• I Thought The Wreck Was Over
• Yesterday Was Judgment Day
• Now It's Now Again
• All You Are Love
• You Make It Look Easy
• Pay The Alligator
• Down On Filbert's Rise
• South Wind Of Summer