Begell's other asset is his singing style, a sort of half-sung half-spoken mumble that recalls lots of different folks; Jerry Garcia on "Tides," Dylan on "Shady Oak" and Curt Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets on "Luck Runs Dry" and "Drunken Sky." Begell takes his time getting through the first half of nken Sky, filling space with luxuriously distorted guitar and throwing in a blues harp solo here and a pedal steel riff there.

The album's second half finds the tempo picking up beginning with a grunge-y tune called "Amber-Eyed Girl" and moving into the similarly-paced "Con Man" and "Thousand Mile Summer."