Evan Dando has been largely a rock'n'roll MIA since the demise of the Lemonheads five or so years ago.
But this solo, mostly acoustic, live album would seem to indicate he's back, older and wiser while his songs - stripped oftheir original grunge-pop arrangements - still hold up.
The 11-track live collection comes with the Griffith Sunset EP - a seven-track collection of covers of the likes of Fred Neil, the Louvin Brothers, Tim Hardin and Townes Van Zandt - showing Dando's love for good country music extends beyond sporting a Gram Parsons T-shirt, and that his voice suits the material rather well.
Actually, as the live album shows, Dando's pipes have aged rather nicely.
He brings an attractive melancholy to songs - the likes of Outdoor Type and My Drug Buddy - that seemed like flippant jokes back in the Lemonheads days.
And the one previously unreleased track The Same Thing You Thought Hard About Is the Same Part I Can Live Without shows his transition from grunge poster boy to emotive, country-inspired singer-songwriter is already well under way.
