It’s becoming increasingly difficult to juggle the countless “good looking guy with an acoustic guitar” acts on today’s music scene. I cannot tell you how many John Mayer and Jason Mraz songs I flip away from on my radio just because of their over-saturation. I’m fairly fed up with it.

So imagine my surprise when I find myself listening to and enjoying Jason Myles Goss, a folk / Americana singer raised in Hopedale, Massachusetts who’s a good looking guy with an acoustic guitar.

Not the common folk artist, Jason’s vocals have a dusky blues hitch with the timbre of Bob Dylan. Coincidentally, Jason even reminisces on his website about Sunday drives during the summer with his father who would smoke cigars and play Dylan’s records.

Goss’s June-released album A Plea For Dreamland proves there is still room on the stage for acoustic-equipped songsters, as long as they bring something new to the table, which Goss does in spades, drawing from a wider pool of musical influences and writing more sincere, cliche-lacking lyrics.

My absolute favorite track on the disc is “Mississippi Red,” a smooth groove about a woman whose taken a few too many wrong turns with the wrong kind of men. Filled with light electric guitar riffs and finely tuned bass lines, “Red” owns a distinct sound worthy of repeat listens.

Goss doesn’t stop there however, with an eclectic track list giving his third album more than enough legs to stand on.

“There’s a Light Up Ahead” has a distinctly Dylan-like feel with its introspective “down but not out” lyrics. “Dive Bars,” as suggested by its title, deals with the inhabitants and drunken feelings of those dim-lighted establishments. “Coffee and Wine” belongs in a blues saloon, with its piano foundation and strumming bass.

Jason slows things down for tracks like “June” and “Brooklyn,” giving the album further depth and emotion--and by that I mean the ladies will love them.

Now, I run away from anything that even remotely sounds like Christian music, but Goss drops in religious references to Judas and the angel Gabriel to propel his lyrics and song-writing, not for any ulterior motive or message. There’s a huge difference between using religion and preaching religion. Thankfully, Goss never strays into the latter category.

With over fifty minutes of music spread over fourteen tracks, A Plea For Dreamland takes the best aspects of blues, rock, country and folk and merges them together. You can pick up all his albums off his website or on iTunes.

Jason Myles Goss will be across the northeast in the coming months, hitting locations in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Maine. Keep your eyes glued to his website or MySpace page for the latest news and show announcements.