Brian Setzer has been keeping a mental list. Everyone he�s spoken to lately seems to think his first post-Stray Cats album, The Knife Feels Like Justice, sounds like someone else. �Let�s see,� he says, counting them off on his fingers, �I�ve heard Buffalo Springfield, Creed ence the Byrds...�

To that you can add traces of everything from the neo-country-rock of the Long Ryders and Jason & The Scorchers to touches reminiscent of Marshall Crenshaw and even Jackson Browne. And that�s just the vocals. As for the numerous and sundry guitar sounds he�s worked up, well, that's a whole �nother list. Setzer doesn't mind the comparisons, though: he's finding them educational. �It's fine with me,'� he shrugs, "as long as you don�t say I sound like Loverboy.�