Max McNown Night Diving (The Cost of Growing Up) CD

Anchored in the charmingly warm vocal presence that McNown partly honed by busking at the beach in Southern California just a few years ago, Night Diving (The Cost of Growing Up) takes the latter half of it's title from a gorgeously textured track that perfectly exemplifies his newly refined sound. With it's rootsy and ethereal instrumentation-luminous steel guitar, lush mandolin, soulful organ-"The Cost of Growing Up" arrives as a clear-eyed but melancholy meditation on the inevitability of pain.