From last week's devil's crossroads to 'Dead Man's Road' would seem a short distance, certainly musically at any rate. Lyrically the warnings of the dangers of addiction and to the path to redemption are told in this honest tale written by Bruce Brookshire lead singer with the Doc Holliday Southern rock band, named after the American frontier gambler, gunfighter and dentist !

From the group's 2001 album 'A Better Road' this falls into my contemporary road songs category and has some great guitar work from John Turner Samuelson. It's very Lynyrd Skynyrd, which is probably why I like it so much.