LOGAN MIZE

Had Tom Petty anticipated Shania Twain’s savvy marketing strategy of releasing country and pop versions of her 2002 Up! for his 1989 classic Full Moon Fever, he’d have come up with something like Nobody in Nashville. Logan Mize doesn’t have Petty’s sarcastic seen-it-all wit, but he’s still young—and besides, his outlook is fundamentally sunnier. Mize bucks rock clichés and yearns for the simple domestic life on “Sunflowers,” declaring, “I’d give anything for a front-porch view.” Elsewhere, singing songs about girls who’ve done him wrong, he packages rousing Petty jangle with faint banjo and steel guitar. He drawls like a country artist, referencing Texas and pickup trucks, but he’s got the crossover appeal to run down mainstream dreams.