Dan Lepien: The Honky Tonk Traditional by Dan Lepien

Dan Lepien: The Honky Tonk Traditional by Dan Lepien

'Dan Lepien: The Honky Tonk Traditional' by Dan Lepien

It doesn't happen often, but a country musician from Wisconsin can make it big. Sauk City-raised, Palmyra-residing Dan Lepien is primed to be next. The Honky Tonk Traditional is his grand statement of purpose after a half-decade of singles, EPs and a road warrior’s worth ethic of gigging. The album's title befits the classicist approach to the music Lepien loves, with special affection or what's arguably country's last generally classic period, the ‘90s.

His uncannily deep drawl (for a Wisconsinite) rides the deep twang of the pedal steel guitar and sawing fiddle he employs through most of Traditional's 10 selections. He’s not reinventing any wheels lyrically. But his embra