Navigating the occasional “Highway Nightmare,” both literally and figuratively, is inevitable, but as Adam Lytle conveys, the only direction to go is forward. The singer-songwriter specializes in navigating the darker regions of the mind and the heart, and he does so as skillfully as ever on this distinctive new single. The song is off of his solo debut record, This is the Fire, a very significant moment in the career of Lytle as a musician and a songwriter, a man who has previously acted as the frontman for distinguished bands such as Quicksilver Daydream and Wild Leaves. This is his time to define himself, dazzling and impressing as a real wordsmith, conjuring up thoughts of other haunting solo acts like Leonard Cohen and Scott Walker. “Highway Nightmare” is essentially about the road of...