There's no way that I'm gonna take Tim Carroll to task for making an average rock album with just enough southern jaunt in its music to endear the disc to the 'No Depression' set. Instead, it's worth figuring that Carroll at one time was a member of the Gizmos, an Indiana band that represented one of the important voices of Midwest punk during the '70s.

Coming together in '75, the Gizmos weren't the punk that so dominated New York or LA around the time owing as much ...