DNO (David Nelson Ostrosser) offers up an LP-length CD of radio-friendly Americana with a roots feel and a few pop and crossover surprises as well. Some of the finest roots musicians in the Ottawa Valley populate the tracks on Second Hand Store, but it's the songs that are the real focus: touching slices of Americana, but with DNO's sometimes

DNO (David Nelson Ostrosser) offers up an LP-length CD of radio-friendly Americana with a roots feel and a few pop and crossover surprises as well. Some of the finest roots musicians in the Ottawa Valley populate the tracks on Second Hand Store, but it's the songs that are the real focus: touching slices of Americana, but with DNO's sometimes mischievous sense of humor rarely far from the surface. Listeners have brought up comparisons to John Hiatt and Ray Wylie Hubbard, but also to playful tunesmiths such as Randy Newman.