The concept behind Hard Working Americans immediately puts you in their corner: a gang of roots-rock’s finest, coming together in a “supergroup” that shrugs off the label, in favor of some no-frills rock-and-roll. The band’s 2014 debut was a covers album, with singer-songwriter Todd Snider, Widespread Panic bassist Dave Schools, The Chris Robinson Brotherhood guitarist Neal Casal, Great American Taxi keyboardist Chad Staehly and future Panic drummer Duane Trucks laying a loose jam session on record. Rest in Chaos, in many ways, is their first proper album, boasting 12 originals (plus a new cut by Guy Clark) and begging the question: Does the talent equal more than the sum of its parts on brand new songs? The answer: Rest in Chaos won’t reinvent rock, but that’s not the mission. It’s packed with easy-to-love, worn-in, soulful jams that’ll sound perfect over whiskey, wedged between The Black Crowes and Gov’t Mule. Rockers like “Throwing the Goats” and “Burn Out Shoes” chug along with the players in perfect balance, nobody besides Snider truly taking center stage. (The band has also expanded its ranks to include guitarist Jesse Aycock.) Rest in Chaos could’ve benefited from some musical freak-outs—but as is, it’s a great new flag-bearer in a long canon of barroom rock-and-roll. As Snider sings on “Half Ass Moses,” “When the record faded, another one plays.”