On The Lowdown, his debut album for Lone Star Records, Wallace fashions a country classic for modern times. Co-produced by Wallace and Derek O'Brien, The Lowdown opens vivid new vistas on a wide range of time-tested country roads, creating a fresh celebration from the music's venerable traditions. With a wide-ranging voice that echoes the greats yet carries its own indelible stamp, Wallace gets to the heart of a panorama of emotions: love, heartbreak, loneliness, romance, joy and longing. And Wallace and company waltz, shuffle, swing, two-step and more with the confidence of veterans and pluck of neo-traditional innovators. Toni Price teams up with him for a duet on "Blow Wind Blow," and Wallace tackles the chestnut "Rose Marie" to prove he's a singer with historic destiny.

The lowdown on Roger Wallace is one hell of a big buzz. Since emerging on the Austin, TX scene in the late 1990s, Wallace has become the crown prince of real country music in the capital city of the true country movement. He "hits new heights in modern hillbilly music," says England's Country Music People . "In a city that's teeming with singers both good and great" Wallace is, to put it bluntly, one of the great-est." Similarly, Country Music magazine notes how Wallace "brings together an expressive, emotion-soaked tenor and a talent for writing crisp, clever songs in the tradition of Harlan Howard and Hank Cochran." Frankly, we couldn't have put it much better ourselves.

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