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In the esteemed and growing fraternity of melancholy male songwriters--Mark Eitzel, Mark Lanegan, Gerald Collier--Mike Johnson certainly ranks near the top. Johnson has a throaty baritone just one click above the Crash Test Dummies' Brad Roberts, and his third solo project, I Feel Alright, mines such emotive subject matter as failed ambition and romantic desire in his relentless quest for the essential ballad. All of these songs come close. His cover of Leonard Cohen's "Leaving Greensleeves" reaches a particularly exquisite delicacy when Johnson teams with backing vocalist Tiffany Anders. By the time he's rolling his gravelly verses over the melodic "Impatient and Unwilling," he's taken his craft to new heights. Despair has never sounded sound so attractive. --Nick Heil