Though the 'Land of Salvation and Sin' is steeped in tradition, the Georgia Satellites make it sound like virgin territory. This is a coming-of-age album for the band, whose first two efforts had energy to burn but not enough musical inspiration. Good-ol'-boyisms dominated the Satellites' material, and the reductive riffing of too much of their music made it seem as if Bachman-Turner Overdrive had...

The Georgia Satellites cruised to platinum on their debut album with the novelty success of "Keep Your Hands to Yourself," and they keep the rural-Chuck Berry riffs and gags coming on Open All Night. There are some welcome steps forward, but for the most part the quartet keeps to the formula that worked so well last time.

Working again with producer Jeff Glixman, guitarist-singers Dan Baird and...