Indiana-based David Quinn is gearing up to release his sophomore LP, Letting Go (out Oct. 23). Most of the songs on his second solo album came to him during a ramble around the Midwestern countryside. The barnstorming “Thunderbird Wine” and woe-is-me “I Hope I Don’t” integrate a wide range of influences—from Texas outlaws to Bakersfield badasses, from Southern rock heroes to Nashville cats. Wherever he rambles, however, Quinn remains rooted in Midwestern soil, “It always comes back to John Prine,” he says. “I got started in the Midwest, so he’s somebody I love.”