Following a pair of fairly ordinary contemporary singer\u002Fsongwriter albums released on his own dime, Nashville-based singer\u002Fsongwriter Dave Barnes signed with the small but respected indie Razor & Tie and released 2008's unexpected genre shift Me and You and the World. From the spirited opening track Brothers & Sisters onward, Barnes appears to have been listening to a nearly nonstop diet of '70s California rockers: echoes of Jackson Browne, Andrew Gold, Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles, and pretty much everyone who ever recorded for Asylum Records percolate through the glossy old-school pop of these 12 mellow tunes. Even the two songs re-recorded from Barnes' earlier D.I.Y. albums, the haunting piano ballad On a Night Like This and first single Until You, share in this new Laurel Canyon mindset — to good effect — and the stylistic experiments also fit the time and place evoked. (For example, the gospel-infused Carry Me Through is strongly reminiscent of similar tunes by Paul Simon or James Taylor.) Tuneful,