Continental is a new band around Dropkick Murphys’ founding guitarist Rick Barton and marks the good man’s first stint as a frontman. While things still rock in a punky way on “All A Man Can Do”, the Irish folk influences of the Murphys have been replaced with country. That this is not a bad thing, becomes clear right off the bat with “Curious Spell”. “Shine” is up next and sounds like a good John Mellencamp song with a bit of Bruce Springsteen thrown in and things just keep on going from there.

Don’t expect the world of this album… it’s just plain old, honest rock n roll that is as straight-forward as it is entertaining from start to finish.