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Darryl Worley is his own man, in control of his music and his life. He looks the way he wants to look. He's writing and singing the songs he wants to sing. He has hooked up with an artist-friendly record label, the mid-sized 903 Music. There's a new exuberance in his declarations of personal and professional independence with titles like Jumpin' Off the Wagon, Free, Living In the Here and Now, and Nothin' To Lose. There's honesty, too, and compassion, in stories he pulls from life on songs like Slow Dancing with a Memory, and Things I'll Never Do Again. Then there's that steamy tale on Ain't Nothin' but a Love Thang, and party songs like Party Song and Whiskey Makes the World Go Round, and more surprises to boot.

Worley says about his latest album, "A thread runs through this album: that sense of freedom that comes not only from within but also through things you experience in your life. When so many changes happen on the outside, they're bound to affect you on the inside too. So these songs don't come from the same Darryl Worley you've had the opportunity to meet and get to know." He continues, "It's not just new music or a new direction. This is a somewhat different
guy who's gone through a lot and come to a place where I want to let some of the seriousness go and help people laugh, smile, and have a good time."

But while there is an abundance of good time music on this album, it's emotional centerpiece is the emotionally-charged I Just Came Back (From a War), inspired by a Marine that Worley met who was having a difficult time adjusting to life back home after being at battle in Iraq.