many roads (including stays in foster homes, a stint in the Navy, and a run with a punk band) but eventually Willie Heath Neal returned to his roots and began bashing out the kind of outlaw country that used to be so famous but now is in short supply. Back then "outlaw" was more than a marketing ploy--it was a way of life, with an authenticity that couldn't be bought by a washed-up rocker trying on a pair of borrowed boots for one last grasp at fame or a suburban songsmith desperately hoping that he could make his songs more "Americana." Neal remembers that time, and delivers his trashed-up take on honky tonk with that same sense of honesty on his latest Chicken Ranch release Out of Highway. Just take the lyrics to the lonesome road dirge of the title track: "I'm a...  (less)