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Marty Raybon, lead singer of the now-defunct Shenandoah, is one of country music's greatest unsung singers. His high-baritone-to-low-tenor voice is imbued with tenderness, honesty, and sweet Southern soulfulness. On his debut solo album, Raybon has counted on his long-time collaborator, Muscle Shoals producer Rick Hall, to light up these 10 tunes, all devoted to love: love lost, love regained, love imagined, and love remembered. Raybon consistently delivers the emotional goods, whether on tortured laments like "If I Didn't Love You" and Hugh Prestwood's achingly lovely "That's That," or songs of sultry nostalgia and romantic remembrance like "Deep Summer (In the Deep South)" (another Prestwood gem) and "Summertown Road." The gentle mix of sensuality, vulnerability, and wounded innocence he serves is bound to touch even the hardest of hearts. --Bob Allen