While his original band, The Felice Brothers, mine a studied street-urchin Catskill-Mountain American Band meets “The Band” for their vagabond ways, their drummer Simone Felice steps out from behind the kit to bask his songwriting ego in the hues most accorded to Ryan Adams, Conor Oberst, and other serous, overtly-prolific contemplators of heavy human endeavor. Felice focuses on the gloomy mid-tempos favored by Neil Young and the entire battalion of alt-country folks who emerged throughout the 1990s, from Palace Brothers to Magnolia Electric Co. He’s either feeling that the world is indeed about to fall off a cliff or working on sentimental soft-rock premises (“Water Spider,” “Summer Morning Rain”) heavy with Ryan Adams influence and sprinkles of Gordon Lightfoot dust. By the time the album passes through “Lose Myself” and “Suzanne,” the album has settled into the laid-back grooves of Jesse Winchester’s upstate NY recorded debut album. This is hardly the stepping out of a frustrated background singer. Felice may enjoy the spotlight, but he isn’t going to let you know that.