Eric Klein’s latest release, Road to Now is a diverse 14-song collection that captures experiences of loss, redemption, and good old-fashioned fun in a variety of musical settings. While primarily a rock album, he unabashedly flavors his songs with blues, country, and even New Age. The first few tracks alone take a multitude of musical directions, more than some artists attempt in the span of an entire album. If you were to judge the CD on the strength of the first track,"Perfect Day," you might conclude that Klein is a rock singer-songwriter in the vein of Jackson Browne or Tom Petty. However, it is followed by"Sugar Jones," a whiskey-soaked Southern blues raver that would do George Thorogood or Jonny Lang proud. Next up is the introspective"The Garden," which finds him crooning like the late Jim Croce over a spaciously textured musical backdrop. Yet once that concludes, the piano and guitar boogie of"Gainesville Girl" takes us back down South."Bluesman," the next song is physically grafted to"Gainesv