Josh Harty, Nowhere, album review There is nothing over-ambitious about Josh Harty's seven-song album Nowhere. The North Dakota son of a policeman-preacher (he could arrest and bless, I guess) offers up a consistently solid slice of American folk-country. Harty has a rich, smooth and expressive voice and his own songs - especially Whiskey And Morphine and Nowhere - are well drawn. He does catchy well, too, as in Sweet Solution - and the album features sensitive fiddle and mandolin playing from Trevor Krieger. Harty also covers Richard Thompson's 1952 Vincent Black Lightning. There's hardly a guitarist around who could match Thompson's dexterity and, in truth, it is probably a song best kept for a gig rather than an album. One cover does work, though, with a plaintive take on Brooks West's 6th Avenue.