At the heart of it Mark is an updated (and more heavily tattoo'd) take on troubadour folk.
As illustrated on "The Night's Last Tomorrow", Mark has a wonderful, rich voice that suits his style and songs to a "T". Fittingly his guitar work is simple and straight forward.
To this he carefully adds the occasional other instrumentation (violin, cello, piano, lap steel...) that act as subdued punctuation to his storytelling, emphasizing not overpowering.
Over all this is a very enjoyable listen, and I do enjoy it when it's on.
Yet it doesn't seem to have "legs". The songs don't hook into my head and I don't have the overpowering urge to play this album repeatedly.
