Long Road Home

Personnel: C.C. White (vocals); Kasper Jensen (banjo); Luis Mascaro (violin); Jonathen Beard (cello); Sasha Smith (keyboards); Richard Bradley (drums); Jim Kaufman (percussion).Audio Mixer: Rick Carson.Country music may not seem like the obvious move for Danny Worsnop, the lead singer of the English metalcore band Asking Alexandria, but who's to say what's in the heart of a man? Certainly, Worsnop cared enough about American roots music to extricate himself from Asking Alexandria and record The Long Road Home, a 2017 solo debut that finds the singer plumbing the depths of his soul with a steel guitar. By the time The Long Road Home appeared in February of 2017, Worsnop had returned to Asking Alexandria, so it's hard to tell whether this is a quick detour or a possible second career. Either way, The Long Road Home is an odd record, divided between earnest balladeering and uptempo genre pieces that play like near-parodies; the two-step "I Feel Like Shit" seems like a send-up of country,