It Don't Get No Better Than This
Perhaps the absolute best true ROCK album of the 1990s, "Trace," provides the kind of mainstream thrills that seemed to have gone out of style twenty years ago. The first three tracks ("Windfall," "Live Free or Die," and "Tear Stained Eye,") could match up against ANY classic rock album of the 70s, and the rest ain't too bad either. The album closes with an obscure Stones cover, which is entirely fitting. Were the Stones twenty years younger and hicks from the midwest, they would be Son Volt.