** Steve Wariner, “Two Teardrops,” Capitol. After...

** Steve Wariner, “Two Teardrops,” Capitol. After years of anonymous toil, Wariner broke out last year with “Holes in the Floor of Heaven.” The title track to this album is another heart-tugger, but it’s less shamelessly sentimental. The other 13 songs, which he sings as Vince Gill might were he a mere mortal, swing wide from saccharine to utterly routine to appealingly down to earth.

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