Traveler evokes a less ambitious Wyclef Jean, but that’s a good thing. Ben Hunter’s modest, acoustic guitar-driven songs with gentle Island rhythms don’t represent anything more or less than a collection of heartfelt songs. Javier Tobar’s Spanish guitar and Suki Kuehn’s cello tastefully embellish the songs, but they serve Hunter well as he toys at length with standard tropes—home, traveling, crossroads, among them—wringing a little additional meaning and resonance out of them. His understated approach works, as if he has accurately gauged that there’s little revolutionary or new in these songs, but there remains a gentle power in their invocation, particularly when they’re revisited with peace and warmth.