"[1] After three critically acclaimed albums (1998's Song About a Train, The Anthracite Shuffle in 2000, and 2002's solo acoustic Drinking With Nick Drake)[citation needed] he started the website Songaweek.com with friend and fellow songwriter Lorne Clarke as a venue to release all his new music digitally.
The Anthracite Shuffle, a concept album dealing with the history of coal mining in Northeastern Pennsylvania, was inspired by a 1996 journey to Houston which Flannery found strikingly flat and level compared to his mountainous home.
Whereas Zevon's versions paint Mancini as a modern-day folk hero, Flannery's haunting vocal delivery gives the boxer's story a terrifying, stone-cold killer interpretation.
…Immediate and gripping, akin to sitting in a living room at the feet of grizzled troubadours like Steve Earle or Bruce Springsteen, soaking in the wisdom of a life perhaps not so clean but still crying out for redemption.
“Teen angst and the green flannel” kicks in the door as well as anything done by the stooges and the who in their primes.."[12][13] His latest release is 2012's Love and Streets, a collection of solo acoustic tracks.