"Work hard, rock hard, eat hard, sleep hard, grow big, wear glasses if you need 'em." With this fearless credo, Webb Wilder has been playing his own brand of country-accented, retro-styled rock & roll since the '80s, and created a tongue-in-cheek but larger-than-life persona to go along with it. One could reasonably say Webb Wilder was playing roots rock before anyone started calling it that, with a twang that came from somewhere in between country and rockabilly, some potent growl in the guitars, a hint of blues in the melodies, a tough backbeat that was just a little bit new wave, and Wilder's vocals that could project wit while also getting the party effectively started. Wilder's persona and music were at their strongest on early albums like 1986's It Came from Nashville and 1989's Hybrid Vigor, through 2006's More Like Me and 2015's Mississippi Moderne showed he was still in fine shape if hitting just a bit less hard and turning up the country side of his tunes.