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After covering songs by Ratt and Skid Row on last year’s Space Brain<\/em>, the gritty singer-songwriter embraces the twang on Discount Country<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \n\tAlex Williams<\/a> turned heads back in 2017 with his outlaw country debut Better Than Myself<\/em>. Since then, he\u2019s been grinding it out on the road, and last year indulged a hair-metal side quest<\/a> with Space Brain<\/em>, an album of country-fied covers of Ratt, Poison, and Skid Row songs. It was a fun listen, with Williams shining a light on the strong songwriting behind a genre once dismissed as vacuous.<\/p>\n \n\tNow, however, the Indiana native is returning to the sounds that made him with Discount Country<\/a><\/em>, a twangy, outlaw-leaning EP of five songs that drops on Friday. Rolling Stone<\/em> premieres the rambling anthem \u201cTime on His Hands\u201d a day early. \u201cThere\u2019s no room for the man in the rat race\/when he\u2019s got nothin\u2019 but tie on his hand,\u201d Williams sings in a smooth baritone.<\/p>\n \n