Parnell, along with his Cowtown compadre Delbert McClinton, made laudable careers out of walking the tightrope between country and blues, which may have baffled the Nashville moguls, but makes perfect sense when those twin musical streams mingle as seamlessly as they do down in these latitudes. Honky-tonk piano and Parnell's barbed-wire guitar-along with Delbert's blue-eyed soul vocals-point the way back to where "the sunset's starin' me down…"  Parnell is the real deal, a rancher's son from Abilene whose dad toured with Bob Wills in his pre-Playboy days. Lee Roy cut his teeth on the blues during his tenures in Austin and Fort Worth and racked up a succession of mainstream country radio hits in the Nineties. Nashville may have made Parnell's fortune, but as this rollicking track demonstrates, Texas captured his heart.