Shawn Mullins vibrant new album, HONEYDEW is teeming with humanity - hobos, railroad workers, traveling salesmen, homeless troubadours, fearful old people, youngsters yearning to escape from a dead-end existence and several generations of family members, living and dead. This richly interwoven, character-driven work is once the most panoramic album of Mullins Mullins distinguished career and the most intensely personal. This album is a definite must-hear for alternative-folk fans.