As befits Bon Jovi collaborators who play platinum country for car-pooling moms, Sugarland love the ’80s. Their third album opens with two songs about avoiding your job, both applying singer Jennifer Nettles’s pronounced twang to the pop-rock bounce of the Bangles; and “Take Me As I Am”—wherein a tattooed motel employee cleans air-conditioned rooms on 95-degree nights—shouts it out like a Sunset Strip glam gang. Even the more traditional country moments—an eerie mandolin serenade to a woman who has died; a comical talking blues in which Nettles imagines proposing to liberal rabble rouser Steve Earle—tweak Nashville norms. Now and then, the energy lags. But mostly, Sugarland’s shameless mining of VH1 Classic hooks keeps their more tepid tendencies in check. DOWNLOAD “Take Me as I Am,” “Genevieve”