On his 11th album, ex–Guns N’ Roses guitarist Izzy Stradlin exercises his Ronnie Wood fixations and Stones-y swaggers with love and composure. “Old Tune,” “Difference,” “Beat Up,” and “Texas” have the hip-swinging grooves and guttural vocal melodies down, while “Rollin’ Rollin’” sounds like Neil Young wrestling with Lynyrd Skynyrd. “Way It Goes” and the proletariat blues of “Job” could’ve been Don’t Tell a Soul–era Replacements. Stradlin long ago mastered the rock ’n’ roll art of being cheeky without being cheesy, and here it’s turned up a notch. There are 10 songs here, with not an unconvincing one among them.
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