Local hero in local memories that reach back to the Charlie's days because he was the frontman for the Mudheads - Bill Coffey, these days out of Boise, where he has a day job as a business architect has a new one, "Skyline Cemetery Rose." This Coffey hits a homerun to Starbucks proportions on this raw introspective Americana classic. He seems to be channeling Big Bill Haywood and George Bailey on his working man-friendly "Old Town Bank & Trust" and he gives Miss Take as good she deserves on "The Man I'm Not," and the song "Dry County" is sad - as it should be. It's country rock smartly done by Coffey and His Cash Money Cousins - a band that's tighter than your boss and Coffey's world weary vocals, not so much unlike Martin Zellar of the Gear Daddies, make it all happen. There's even a couple of rockers - "Gone Away For Good" and "A Girl From Southern Utah." Coffey is as good as any singer/songwriter out there right now - and way better than most of them. They should have these CDs at Salzer's in Ventura. Buy two - Christmas is only 90-something days away.