Alabama artist Sylvia Rose Novak just released her album Bad Luck on May 8. After years of hoofing through and establishing herself in the Southern folk-country scene, she has finally embraced her hard-edged Southern roots and the gothicism of her home region by creating her first fully-fledged rock record. What her newfound dedication to her art has amounted to is a swaggering shakedown of her songwriting abilities, trading in her cowboy boots for punk-rock leather.