Josh Hyde Leads Us Straight ‘Into the Soul’

The sweet spot of Josh Hyde’s Into the Soul is found in the perfectly imperfect yet entirely compelling approach to songs that range from the joyous blues-funk of the opening cut, “Rocking Chair,” to the dusky melancholy of the closing track, “Reasons Why.” Tying everything together is album producer Joe V. McMahan (KevinGordon, Mike Farris), with whom the Louisiana native recorded hisprevious album, 2017’s The Call of the Night.While The Call of the Night fou