Get It In Gear provides an appropriately titled opener, the album drawing on such legends as Merle Haggard and Buck Owens as well as contemporary kindred spirits like Yoakam and Dave Alvin as he boogies atop the barrellhouse joanna with Permanent Position and dances around the bar for If You are Serious, beers and tears ballad I Only Smoke When I am Drinking, and the cowboy coloured Country Couples