Given native New Englander Tyler Perry developed his stage persona and nom de plume while belting out Roy Orbison covers at open mic nights in Venice Beach, it’s no surprise that the spirit of The Big O hovers over much of his debut album as Tyler Ballgame. It takes an impressive set of pipes to channel Orbison, however, and the swoop and warble of Perry’s vocals prove a powerful conduit for his own songs. Produced by analog-recording maven Jonathan Rado (Weyes Blood, The Lemon Twigs), For the First Time, Again serves up a warm, retro-flavored platter of tremulous torch songs (“Goodbye My Love”), choogling roots rock (“Matter of Taste”), and sumptuous ’70s-styled AOR (Harry Nilsson-like closer “Waiting So Long”). Yet for all the vintage classicism and nods to the past here, the heart of songs such as the joyous “Got a New Car” and “I Believe in Love”—with its soul-lifting cosmic Americana—is entirely Perry’s own.