Oh, and try some vocal percussion. Little While 3 Used to be, when you got an album from the Deep South, it sounded like it. Darkness on the Delta , Swanee River and a country song were mandatory staples. But this latest album from the Troy State Stallmen bears little trace of its Alabama origins, Swanee River notwithstanding. I think that's most of its problem.
Southern charm is a powerful thing.
I figure these guys have it, since you can hear their accents in the obligatory studio out-take bonus track at the end. But their music has a generic blandness that is not overcome by charisma or musicality. You can tell the Troy State troubadours have music-student origins. There are some lovely chords hidden here and there, even if there isn't quite the polish we have come to expect from the best groups. On Your Own is quite a pleasant jazzy number with an excellent solo, while All That I Need has some lovely moments, even if the tenor should have stuck to his true range and skipped the falsetto.