Before scoring his own hits, Joe Diffie was a sought-after demo singer. In part, that was because he has a fantastic voice but also because he can sound like anybody. On A Night to Remember, he phrases like George Strait or George Jones at one moment, then he's John Anderson or Alan Jackson the next; he even nails an imitation of the Mavericks' Raul Malo on the chorus of "Better Off Gone." Without a distinctive voice, though, Diffie winds up being only as good as his songs, which are pretty good here, although too often they're swallowed by arena-sized arrangements at odds with their intimate content. The desperate "Are We Even Yet," however, balances loud and quiet just right, and on an old-school Harlan Howard ballad called "Don't Our Love Look Natural," Diffie sounds like he's preparing a demo for the next Gene Watson single--wonderful, in other words, but still not distinctively Diffie. --David Cantwell