Tucson’s own twangy country quartet The Wyatts are releasing their sophomore recording, the EP “The Continuing Saga of the Wyatts, Volume One.”

If you like your country with a steel throb, a thumping heartbeat of a bass line and enough beer and whine to drown the corner honky tonk, you won’t want to skip over track three, “Broke Your Heart” featuring Amy “Whiskey Girl Wyatt” Ross on lead and backup vocals.

“I didnt’ mean to make you cry / Lord knows I never meant all that / I realized I’ve not done my part / I lied to you and broke your heart.” Oh, where’s the tissues?

Fiddles faddle on the next track, and there’s the hollow echo of a mandolin in the intro, which quickly gives way to clean, almost sinister acoustic axes. “The Pick Up” is a rollicking road trip with a distinctive rockabilly roll to it — delicious standup bass lines and rocking piano — and “Hey There, Bartender” is that steel-guitar whining drowning in the drink song that is sadly absent from much of what Nashville spews out these days. But this isn’t one of those whiskey shot-slamming odes; it’s actually a thoughtful plea to figuring out life at its lowest moments. It swoons and throbs, but there’s a glimmer of hope if he can convince her to join him so he’s not standing in the crossroads all alone.

The album, recorded at Wavelab Studios, also includes the Wyatts’ rockabilly Christmas song “Merry Christmas Darlin’,” which got some national airplay when the band released it last holiday season. OK, holiday music in the heat of a Tucson summer? Hey, it’s a funny song, and funny songs shouldn’t be left to get dusty just because they have Christmas in their title!

The Wyatts are holding a CD release party at O’Malley’s, 247 N. Fourth Ave., at 10 p.m. May 5. That’s also the day the CD is being released. Of course, you can get your copy at the party.