'I've seen it all before,' sings Amos Lee to the borrowed tune of Bob Dylan's Knocking on Heaven's Door. But 'I've heard it all before' would be closer to the mark.

Lee could have been - indeed, quite possibly has been - designed for consumption by an audience that wants artists who don't belong to their parents' generation, but sound the same as those that do.

He claims to listen mostly to music recorded before 1975, and can be heard here ploughing over ground first broken by Dylan, Van Morrison and Bill Withers well before he was born. He's also picked up on the singer-songwriter take on the blues explored more recently by Keb Mo', and has borrowed liberally from that as well.

That Blue Note, Norah Jones' record label, is hoping to market Lee to her following is reasonably obvious. Her boyfriend and bassist is the producer, her guitarist Adam Levy appears on several tracks, and she herself guests on a couple. Lee has also opened for Jones on recent tours.

Some performances are stronger than others. Give it Up manages to be engagingly funky in the approved Withers style without using drums (although I suspect a drum track was played to in the studio and then dropped from the final mix).

There isn't much substance here, but it's likeable enough slickly packaged folk-soul from an artist still searching for his own voice - even if he's being promoted as though he's already found it.