His 2025 debut album, "The Select" - its title nods to the Parisian brasserie from Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" - puts bluesy guitar riffs against low-slung soul-rock grooves, as in the twangy "Let 'Em Talk" and the waltz-time "Ends of the Earth," which has been streamed more than 70 million times on Spotify and is slowly moving up the country radio chart.