Pray this isn't 'For the Ride Home'

Looking at the album cover, I see Josh Kelley's drinking a cup of coffee. He must have been listening to this album. Of the two things that most offend me most in music, the completely, intentionally, sterilized, unoffensive manufacture of mainstream pop music ranks right up there with the hypocritical shock-value arrogance of pseudo-self-important modern art. \nNow that I've got that out in the open, I can go into detail on the music for the drones. The few hooks that exist seem borrowed and the writing is empty at best: "You've been bad / You've been good / Did you lose your mind / Like I knew you would?" In his sweater and unkempt hair, Josh Kelley is a hard guy not to like and the organ work and occasional banjo and steel help too. But the problem isn't the music or writing so much as the apparent lack of feel and sincerity. If this is the soundtrack "For the Ride Home" then pray that it doesn't become too popular. It'll cause more wrecks from people falling asleep at the wheel than every 16-year-old cell phone toting blonde in a Humvee combined. On the other hand, if listening to music is a passive event for you, then this guy writes some of the best, most moderately disposable pop out there.