The Good Intentions are an Americana-folk-country-bluegrass group from Liverpool, featuring husband R. Peter Davies, wife Gabrielle Monk, and their friend Frank Roskell, along with a number of Guest Intentions (including Rick Shea, Brantley Kearns, David Jackson, Scott Poley, and Wyman Reese). Together they make acoustic-based music that keeps things sweet and simple. In 2012, Davies—the band's songwriter—appeared in Michael Apted's 56Up TV documentary, the latest in the long-running 7Up series. Davies said he returned to the series to help popularize his group, which had won a British Country Music Award for Americana Act of the Year a few years back. Here, the memorable "Everybody Loves a Drinking Man" brings together three-part harmonies, banjo, lap steel, and modest '40s/early-'50s country instruments to bear witness. "Coal Miner's Lament" matches the vocals to a weeping pedal steel. The sound shifts from Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris–type slow duets to full-out house jams that could be outtakes from Bruce Springsteen's Seeger Sessions or, as the members of the band imagine, ancient sides recorded by The Carter Family themselves.