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Brian Olive already had an impressive career working with some of the more notable figures on the Midwest garage rock and punk blues scene before he reinvented himself with his first solo album in 2009. An Ohio native, Olive got his start in music when he was in high school, playing guitar in a band called Us and Them that would evolve into the celebrated garage rock combo the Greenhornes. Olive appeared on the group's first two albums, 1999's Gun for You and 2000's The Greenhornes, but parted ways with the band to focus his energies on another project, the Soledad Brothers, formed by two fellow Ohioans, Johnny Wirick (aka Johnny Walker) and Ben Smith (aka Ben Swank). Olive relocated to Detroit with the band and, like his new bandmates, adopted a stage name, Henry Oliver. The Soledad Brothers struck up a friendship with Jack White, whose group the White Stripes were just starting to earn some local buzz, and White produced the band's self-titled debut album (with his partner Meg White ...