Lafayette songwriter and piano player David Egan doesn’t hurry his art, releasing his second album in five years with You Don’t Know Your Mind. It stands out for its range—not of styles (an overrated sort of variety in my books) but of emotions and levels of gravity. Egan’s never simply in a blues mode where everything is shades of bad, nor are his blues glib, so nothing sounds felt. The lengthy title cut is dark as he sounds like a man at the end of his rope trying to deal with a mercurial woman. And he sounds like a man exploring his own ache on “Bourbon in My Cup.” He’s playful on “Proud Dog,” a proud papa on “Small Fry,” and sweetly playful on his nod toward the traditional jazz song on “If It Is What It Is (It’s Love).”

Those shifts mean the songs have impact. When he calls out his cheating wife on “Love, Honor and Obey,” the clenched-teeth anger sounds real, and when he plays the second line R&B “Sing It” that he contributed to the Irma Thomas, Tracy Nelson and Marcia Ball album by the same name, the pleasure in the words and the experience of singing over the groove are palpable. His blues don’t seem generic, and even when you know they’re simply songs he wrote, they register because Egan and his art are three dimensional.