“Hallelujah in the City” opens with a mandola and combined with Osborne’s voice gives the song a country gospel sound but then starts to rock in as the narrator moves into the city: “in the churches of Brooklyn/ underneath the Chelsea lights/ in the Battery Park, and up in Morningside Heights.” “Sweeter Than The Rest” is terrific love song because rather than joyful from having love or sorrowful by its absence the narrator honestly wishes well the one that got way, embracing Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “’Tis better to have loved and lost” sentiment because no one gets to be with everyone they ever loved. On a cover of Jay Clifford’s “Cathedrals” Osborne’s voice is exquisite, especially when paired with a piano at the beginning.

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