Any time that Christian McBride steps into the studio or onto a stage he plays what could be called 'people music,' but it's a particularly apt title for the second release by his hard-swinging acoustic quintet Inside Straight.

Four years after Kind Of Brown, the band's acclaimed debut album, People Music delivers a more road-tested, 'lived-in' Inside Straight, able to dig deep while projecting that ebullient vigor that has become McBride's trademark.