I've been listening it to a ton, and I agree that Don Gately that it has a more country feel than a lot of Earle's previous stuff. It's slow-tempo most of the time, with bittersweet or romantic lyrics. I completely disagree about it being new age "pablum," though—the line Enkidum quoted is actually "I believe in God,…

I had dinner with Jon Heder as part of a college function right after Napoleon Dynamite came out. He talked about Hess as if Hess really loved all of his characters, since they were the people he grew up with: hopelessly unfashionable Idaho Mormons. From what I understood, nearly every joke in Napoleon is based on…