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If critical raves drove the record charts, Randy Weeks would rightfully be top of the pops. After all, consider just some of the evidence: "An amazing songwriter" (Salon.com). "Smart songwriting and a broad palette of pop music influences" (CD Now). "Amazing musician" (Billboard). "A master of the dark mood and edgy relationships. Cooler than a fucking Eskimo beer box" (Houston Press). Hailed as "LA’s secret musical weapon" in the Los Angeles City Beat, Weeks has had a song covered by one of today’s finest songwriters"Can’t Let Go," cut by Lucinda Williams on her breakthrough Car Wheels on a Gravel Road albumand has had others featured in such movies as Shallow Hal, Sunshine State and Say It Isn’t So.

In the 1980s, as part of the Lonesome Strangers, Weeks helped jumpstart the fertile Los Angeles roots music scene that launched the careers of such talents as Williams, Dwight Yoakam, Jim Lauderdale, Rosie Flores and Buddy Miller. And since going solo, he has created what are now three albums whose musical and lyrical richness marks them as modern classics.

So if you don’t yet already know (and love) the music of Randy Weeks, his latest release, Sugarfinger, is a fine place to start getting acquainted with an artist who is bound to become a personal favorite. Touted in the Houston Press as "easily his most fully realized statement yet," it’s a disc that combines the stylistic breadth and ear appeal of classic AM radio with the lyrical depth and musical imagination that marked the progressive FM radio of the early 1970s, yet plays with a contemporary élan that impeccably suits the times we live in. Produced by Jamie Candiloro, known for his work with R.E.M., Ryan Adams and others, it’s an album with just about everything a listener might want: sharp lyrics that make both darkness and light utterly palpable, music that grooves as well as glistens with imaginative touches, seductive hooks that transform the tracks into delicious ear worms, and vocals by Weeks that are both sweet yet edgy as well as irresistibly sincere and emotive. Weeks is backed by a stellar band that includes artists-in-their-own-right Tony Gilkyson and Mike Stinson.