It's a good year for grizzled Texan outlaws. Following Willie Nelson's Band of Brothers comes this equally classy offering from a fellow veteran, its 10 tracks a songwriting showcase. Nelson rides shotgun on Hard to Be an Outlaw, where 75-year-old Shaver threatens to "terrorise the town" to keening steel guitar, while the rasping Long in the Tooth tussles with mortality to a swampy beat. By contrast come rolling train ballads such as the autobiographical Music City USA, and the Nashville pop of I'm In Love, a song awaiting an MOR diva. Sometimes ornery, sometimes tender, this is how honky-tonk heroes grow old.