Singer/songwriter Steven Jacob might not have been born in Texas, but his always-growing catalog of catchy songs embodies all the homegrown soul the best of the venerated Lone Star State wordsmiths have to offer. His debut album, 2005’s “A Texas 6 Pack,” set a high standard to meet. But that was then. Jacob’s new CD, “Box of Chocolates,” fully captures his always laid-back approach to life and music. He sets his songs among an endlessly interesting collection of instrumental and stylistic textures that are sure to satisfy just about every nonmainstream musical taste there is. Included are the whimsy of “Obsessive Cornbread Disorder” and “Hundred Dollar Shoes,” the soul-heavy blues of “I Think of You” and “Bottom of the Blues,” the country heartache of “Big Rubber Band” and “Bound To Be a #1,” and the Beatles-inspired treatment on “Wish That You Were Here.” “Box of Chocolate” lives up to its title in that — to borrow a phrase from Forrest Gump — you never know what you’re going to get. Good one! NEXT rating: B+ - Don Chance, Times Record News