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Neal Coty's second album balances his music between rock and a soft place. Dipping into rock's songbook, he puts the twang to a mandolin-driven rendition of Tom Petty's "You Got Lucky" (with spoken-word verses that sound a little goofy) and Bruce Springsteen's "Sad Eyes." As for original material, Coty's brand of contemporary country tends toward lukewarm love songs ("You're All That," "Can't Change My Love," the title track), while the Lone Star clichés of "Black Heart of Texas" and "South Texas Night" are equally squishy. Though the Maryland-raised Coty earlier showed promise with harder-hitting story songs--the album-ending "The Worst Way" provides the best example here--his sophomore effort too often pulls its punches. --Don McLeese