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The Continental Drifters' third album, "Better Day," finds the New Orleans-based group further melding its members' musical pasts, particularly the rootsy Paisley Pop underground leanings of ex- Bangle Vicki Peterson, the youngest Cowsill (Susan), Mark Walton and Robert Mache (Steve Wynn/Dream Syndicate) and famous sixth man Peter Holsapple (dbs, REM, Hootie); new hometown drummer Russ Broussard adds supple Cajun and Zydeco flavor to tracks like "Tomorrow's Gonna Be" (Walton's vocal debut) and Peterson's "That Much a Fool." With a democratic approach to lead vocal and songwriting duties, the album features Peterson's bright bangly "Long Journey Home" and Holsapple's Memphis-soul influenced "Live on Love," as well as four terrific tracks by Cowsill, the best of them the melancholy "Snow" and the graceful, gracious "Peaceful Waking," her response to the divorce ex- husband Holsapple discourses on more bitterly in the terse "Down by the Great Mistake."
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