David Ball - David Ball (1994/2020)

This self-titled release repackages the best of David Ball's early material, originally released prior to his signing to Warner Brothers. Even at the outset of his career, he's a gritty vocalist whose reverence for the classic honky tonk sound is obvious, and songs like "If She Were Mine," "Texas Echo," and "Smokin' Cigarettes and Drinkin' Coffee Blues" clearly anticipate the music still to come.