Beau Jennings and company gone and given us one beautiful album with I am Haunted, I am Alive, one rife with gorgeous phantom pains in songs such as “You Were The Sound,” “Houses” and “Anymore.” No doubt some will draw comparisons between Jennings and Gram Parsons (or even early Jackson Browne) and while that’s not surprising or out of place, the young man has plenty to offer all on his own - including a few jolts of humor such as in “Say The Answer Shortly” (“So say the answer slowly/Say it if you know/Why it took thirty-eight chapters for the Lord to answer Job”) or even in the breakup anthem “Like Soldiers In The Civil War.” Once this album starts working its charms - and it’s really only a matter of seconds before that happens - it’s harder than hell to get it out of your CD player. – Jedd Beaudoin