Blues/country/proto-punk wailer Biram's third Bloodshot album is, um, a pretty serious downer of a time. Oddly out-of-place Black Diamond Heavies-assisted rager “I Feel So Good” aside, he spends this one ruminating all on his lonesome, and you can definitely his his pain. Song titles like “Still Drunk, Still Crazy & Still Blue,” “Judgement Day,” “Draggin' Down The Line” and “Hard Time” say it all, but if they don't, Biram's evocative strumming and fingerpicking and his plaintive wail surely spell it out - even the higher-tempo solo songs on the CD's backside come off as emotionally heavy. And that ain't a bad thing if you're in the mood for some serious she's-done-gone-away soul searching; if you're not, however, this double-titled disc can come off as a little one-sided. - Colin Kincaid