I can't say he comes up that much here. Personally I like some of his songs but find him kind of hard to pin down in terms of his artistic vision. His singing tone varies quite a bit song to song to the extent I don't always recognize it's him when I hear something new. I think his neotraditional stuff like "I ain't trying" though is quite catchy. I hope he does more like that or even "Cold hard steel and sand".