TO say the very least, Daniel Meade has been putting out authentic country music since he was born and has been alive since the days of Hank Williams. Or so you’d think so on listening to this.

Daniel last released an album ‘Let me off at the bottom’ last year with his band ‘The Flying Mules.’ This stripped back to the raw roots of country music effort, really demonstrates Daniel’s gift for writing songs and the results are quite beautiful.

The albums ten tracks don’t stray too far from stripped-back country love songs and rambling ditties. Yet still it’s another timeless classic that’s produced by the Glaswegian gunslinging, banjo playing, piano bashing cowboy. The almost effortless nature of making the album is ridiculous.

Although there was no appearance from Daniels right hand guitar man Lloyd Reid playing on the album, the old gitty is as equally as good at times. Daniel played every instrument and sang every vocal on the record as it was originally intended to be nothing more than a birthday present to his girlfriend. Who said romance was dead?

Taking no longer than an hour to write each song and four hours to record it, it’s almost sickening how good it turned out. Talk about winging it.

‘Sometime Falling, Sometime Flying’ – a track that Gram Parsons would be proud of –  is a highlight. But there’s too many to single out anything as the on point moment. But this would be a perfect dose of it, if you want to give it a shot.

In a world that fails to highlight the modern country scene, which is arguably is as good a nick as it’s ever been, give this a crack and embrace Scotland’s finest country artist. Let it open up yer heart, it’s the most beautiful record you’ll hear until his next one.