I was a little puzzled when I was listening, though, because to my furry ears Mr. Robison does a dead-on imitation of Jerry Garcia on a tune called “Tennessee Jed”—and, sure enough, the song was written by Jerry and Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter. Don’t know why Bruce is imitating anybody because he’s certainly a more than adequate vocalist. Then, right after the Jerry Garcia imitation, he does a Webb Pierce song—More and More—that struck me as sounding very much like Americana patron saint Gram Parsons. That said, perhaps the best track on the CD is a song Robison co-wrote with Miles Zuniga, Days Go By, which is a first-person, almost breezy account of a man’s descent from a happy marriage in 1974, to losing a baby, to mental illness, to drug abuse, to pawning (presumably) a wedding ring on a cold spring day in Chicago, to living in the streets “on the corner of 5th Street and Vine with a bottle of wine.” Good stuff, overall, even when he sounds like Jerry and Gram.   Purchase Eleven Stories at LoneStarMusic.com