Texan Billy Neely has been singing and picking country guitar since 1929 and age 13, when he encountered his idol, the legendary Jimmie Rodgers, at a tent show. Highlighting this debut album: “Law and Justice,” a haunting, Woody Guthrie–like tune penned on death row in 1930 by a Neely relative who was electrocuted for a crime of which he was later proven innocent; and the singer’s own “Blackland Farm,” where Neely recounts the story of his childhood meeting with Rodgers.