Jesse Dayton is part of an age-old lineage of left-of-the-dial Texas outlaws. The Austin songwriter rocks the jukebox with hard-edged country that employs the down-home humor and nimble turns of phrase that made Willie Nelson famous, backing it up with turbo-charged guitars and choruses made to whip the honky-tonk into a frenzy. It’s easy to relate to the sentiment he blasts over rowdy piano on “Tried to Quit (But I Just Quit Tryin’).” Blame the grit on Dayton’s affinity for classic punk and a rockabilly side that has led to collaborations with Rob Zombie—it lends his tunes a hair-raising intensity that cuts right to the core.