>His songs are predictable and
>very bland. he is no longer a rebel. Just
>reciting cliche verses.

He was interesting because he was an outsider, a rebel, with that certain swag to him that not a lot of folks had early in his career.

But now that he made it, he's got little to say. The edge isn't there. Which makes for some boring music, unfortunately.

I stop short of calling any of it "bad," (outside of UMC) but Let Love, Nobody Smiling, August Greene ... were just bland to me. Not bad at all, I actually liked a lot of it. But nothing from those albums stood out.