Not Hal at his best, but still better than most anyone else.
Though "Lucky Man" finds Hal Ketchum leaning more toward the typical country radio tune, he nonetheless inspires by his pure passion alone. True, most of these songs are rather ordinary when compared to his earlier treasures (e.g., "Every Little Word," "Drive On," "Old Soldiers"), but he still delivers as only Hal can. In this album he tries almost successfully to walk the line between his nonconformist, carpenter roots and the market-demanded necessity of producing a radio hit. Still, this album casts the current lookalike singing cowboys in a deep Ketchum shadow. Great alternative country. Hal is an original.