Matt R, your not the first to say that about the newest KWS album, but I read an interview with him about two years before it came out, and to the best of my understanding, here's why he did it. During those 5 years he didn't release anything, he was going through some problems with substance abuse (really following SRV's footsteps wasn't he?). Anyway, after he got clean, he and Noah Hunt started writing like crazy. He wrote a ton of blues stuff, but he also wrote a lot of rock stuff. He didn't want to put out an album with no continuity, so his plan was to release a rock album, and then a blues album. "The Place You're In" is his rock release. I don't like it near as much as his previous work, but I appreciate it for what it is. Word is that KWS is also finishing up a blues documentary that he put together for PBS. Apparently, he traveled to all the old juke joints of the south and performed with some pretty big names. I know he went through Clarksdale, MS which hits home for me, because that's where my grandparents live. Lots of blues history there.