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TITLE: SOMETHING TO BELIEVE
ARTIST: FREEBO
LABEL: POPPABO MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: 2011
By Russ Paris
Freebo is best recognized for the decade or more that he recorded and toured with Bonnie Raitt. In fact, Freebo is a genuine folk, rock and blues icon. For more than 30 years, Freebo has played bass and tuba on recordings and toured with some of the great artists of our time: Bonnie Raitt, John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, Crosby Stills & Nash, Maria Muldaur, Ringo Starr, Michelle Shocked, Neil Young, Loudon Wainwright III, Dr. John, and many others. He has also appeared on Saturday Night Live, Midnight Special, Muppets Tonight, and in concert with the legendary Spinal Tap.
When I first met Freebo back in 1997, he had just released his debut solo album, The End Of The Beginning, and was just learning to step into the spotlight as a headliner after decades as a consummate side- man. That CD featured appearances by many of his talented friends including Bonnie Raitt, Paul Barrere, Catfish Hodge, Albert Lee, Sam Clayton and others. That CD has a variety of styles and showed great promise for Freebo's future solo career including some clever song writing, good rock and pop sensibilities developed over decades of working with some of the best artists around, and fine production by Freebo and Michael Jochum.
It was during his years touring in support of his first solo release, as well as his subsequent releases Dog People (2002) and Before the Separation (2005) that Freebo fully embraced -- and was embraced by -- the modern folk music community. His compassionate concern for the world and people around him, as evidenced both in his lyrics and his open stage banter, made the connection an easy one. And while his solo debut might be placed in the rock and roll record bins, certainly Before the Separation is very much a folk album, with supreme concern and emphasis on the world around him.
All this is to say that in the past decade, in a steady transition, Freebo has become an award-winning singer, songwriter and folk artist. He has been honored with a 2008 Posi Award for "Best Song."
2007 L.A. Music Awards "Best Folk Artist," Winner of the 2007 South Florida Songwriting Contest, a 2009 finalist in The Great American Songwriting Contest, and a finalist in five different categories of JPF Awards.
Freebo's latest CD, Something To Believe (2011), was produced by Freebo and co-produced and engineered by Robert Tepper who also co- wrote many of the songs. The CD includes 11 tracks, all but one co- written by Freebo. There are guest appearances by Mark Goldenberg, Shayne Fontayne, Skip Edwards, Rosemary Butler, Fuzzbee Morse, Dan Navarro, Jeff Pevar, Albert Lee and Jude Johnstone among others.
The collection starts with Standing Ovation, a track which may well be the highlight of the CD and could turn out to be the zenith of Freebo's career. It's an astounding song, which encompasses a profound view of life. If you could view your own funeral, what would you like to witness? Freebo's answer is astute and insightful:
When I die,
Give me a standing ovation,
A celebration
For a job well done.
It's an ideal that we can all strive for, to lead a life that aims for such a result. This lead-off track is destined to become a classic and certainly kicks off the CD on a high note. The songwriting and production are top-notch and that carries throughout the collection.
When There's No Place Like Home is a lament for the less than ideal welcome our soldiers often return to after serving their country. Freebo doesn't place blame but simply recognizes the current economic and social uncertainties awaiting in place of a hero's welcome. That we, as a people, should be able to do better is left unsaid, but is certainly implied.
She Loves My Dog More Than Me will be a delight to anyone who has ever had a dog as a member of the family. Clever lyrics and a catchy chorus make you want to sing along out loud. This is one of those instantly appealing and memorable pop songs that you'll find yourself humming later that night.
My Personal GPS is an amusing modern love song to the technology that keeps us from getting lost. Maybe Freebo spends a bit too much time on the road?
Something To Believe is a beautiful song about the search for meaning in life. After listening to the song multiple times, I'm convinced that Freebo has found the meaning within the search itself that striving to live life upon the right path and being kind to others provides the very meaning one is looking for. Certainly not an easy path, but one well worth striving for.
On A Parallel Together continues the journey through life and love. The song, like much of the album, effectively brings together various musical elements: folk, country, pop, rock, and blues. What emerges is a potent song about life on the road, though not necessarily a road in the physical sense.
You and I
Living our lives,
Walkin' on d - Folkworks.org

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TITLE: SOMETHING TO BELIEVE
ARTIST: FREEBO
LABEL: POPPABO MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: 2011
By Russ Paris
Freebo is best recognized for the decade or more that he recorded and toured with Bonnie Raitt. In fact, Freebo is a genuine folk, rock and blues icon. For more than 30 years, Freebo has played bass and tuba on recordings and toured with some of the great artists of our time: Bonnie Raitt, John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, Crosby Stills & Nash, Maria Muldaur, Ringo Starr, Michelle Shocked, Neil Young, Loudon Wainwright III, Dr. John, and many others. He has also appeared on Saturday Night Live, Midnight Special, Muppets Tonight, and in concert with the legendary Spinal Tap.
When I first met Freebo back in 1997, he had just released his debut solo album, The End Of The Beginning, and was just learning to step into the spotlight as a headliner after decades as a consummate side- man. That CD featured appearances by many of his talented friends including Bonnie Raitt, Paul Barrere, Catfish Hodge, Albert Lee, Sam Clayton and others. That CD has a variety of styles and showed great promise for Freebo's future solo career including some clever song writing, good rock and pop sensibilities developed over decades of working with some of the best artists around, and fine production by Freebo and Michael Jochum.
It was during his years touring in support of his first solo release, as well as his subsequent releases Dog People (2002) and Before the Separation (2005) that Freebo fully embraced -- and was embraced by -- the modern folk music community. His compassionate concern for the world and people around him, as evidenced both in his lyrics and his open stage banter, made the connection an easy one. And while his solo debut might be placed in the rock and roll record bins, certainly Before the Separation is very much a folk album, with supreme concern and emphasis on the world around him.
All this is to say that in the past decade, in a steady transition, Freebo has become an award-winning singer, songwriter and folk artist. He has been honored with a 2008 Posi Award for "Best Song."
2007 L.A. Music Awards "Best Folk Artist," Winner of the 2007 South Florida Songwriting Contest, a 2009 finalist in The Great American Songwriting Contest, and a finalist in five different categories of JPF Awards.
Freebo's latest CD, Something To Believe (2011), was produced by Freebo and co-produced and engineered by Robert Tepper who also co- wrote many of the songs. The CD includes 11 tracks, all but one co- written by Freebo. There are guest appearances by Mark Goldenberg, Shayne Fontayne, Skip Edwards, Rosemary Butler, Fuzzbee Morse, Dan Navarro, Jeff Pevar, Albert Lee and Jude Johnstone among others.
The collection starts with Standing Ovation, a track which may well be the highlight of the CD and could turn out to be the zenith of Freebo's career. It's an astounding song, which encompasses a profound view of life. If you could view your own funeral, what would you like to witness? Freebo's answer is astute and insightful:
When I die,
Give me a standing ovation,
A celebration
For a job well done.
It's an ideal that we can all strive for, to lead a life that aims for such a result. This lead-off track is destined to become a classic and certainly kicks off the CD on a high note. The songwriting and production are top-notch and that carries throughout the collection.
When There's No Place Like Home is a lament for the less than ideal welcome our soldiers often return to after serving their country. Freebo doesn't place blame but simply recognizes the current economic and social uncertainties awaiting in place of a hero's welcome. That we, as a people, should be able to do better is left unsaid, but is certainly implied.
She Loves My Dog More Than Me will be a delight to anyone who has ever had a dog as a member of the family. Clever lyrics and a catchy chorus make you want to sing along out loud. This is one of those instantly appealing and memorable pop songs that you'll find yourself humming later that night.
My Personal GPS is an amusing modern love song to the technology that keeps us from getting lost. Maybe Freebo spends a bit too much time on the road?
Something To Believe is a beautiful song about the search for meaning in life. After listening to the song multiple times, I'm convinced that Freebo has found the meaning within the search itself that striving to live life upon the right path and being kind to others provides the very meaning one is looking for. Certainly not an easy path, but one well worth striving for.
On A Parallel Together continues the journey through life and love. The song, like much of the album, effectively brings together various musical elements: folk, country, pop, rock, and blues. What emerges is a potent song about life on the road, though not necessarily a road in the physical sense.
You and I
Living our lives,
Walkin' on d - Folkworks.org

REVIEW, www.JSITop21.com
John Shelton Ivany

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- www.jsitop21.com John Shelton Ivany

REVIEW, www.JSITop21.com
John Shelton Ivany

“Something To Believe" by Feebo is a great album that sounds as if Freebo is not really singing to you; he's talking to you. One of the best albums of the year. John Shelton Ivany jsitop21.com</HTML>
- www.jsitop21.com John Shelton Ivany

Freebo “Something To Believe” – NEW MUSIC REVIEW
Posted 01 Aug 2011 in 10s, Albums of 2011, Albums of the 10s, Americana
In a cluttered world that seems to thrive on excess, self-promotion, and personal and political agendas, listening to Freebo and his new album is like riding on a cumulous cloud of peaceful awareness.
Freebo, in the music business since the sixties, has been part of Bonnie Raitt’s band for more than a decade and has become a sought after session musician working with the elite of Rock & Roll aristocracy including Ringo Starr, John Mayall, Crosby Stills & Nash, Maria Muldaur, The Bluesbusters as well as many others. Since embarking on his own Freebo has released four albums of his own cosmic blend of country, rock, soul, and folk, ear pleasing genre defying music.
His latest release, the appropriately named Something to Believe, contains 11 strong musically diverse songs that are at once uplifting while at the same time serve as mini socio-economic history lessons interspersed with beautiful melodic love songs. The album has a real 70’s mellow rock vibe, which after multiple listens brings to mind the early works of England Dan and John Ford Coley along with the mellow California style of Seals and Croft.
The album opens with “Standing Ovation” an uplifting (it that’s possible) song that talks about death from the perspective of a happy and healthy person, something that is not often covered in song or in life for that matter. People tend to only consider death when it is imminent. “When I die, give me a standing ovation, a celebration for a job well done” a wonderful sentiment sung over a warm bed of strings, subtle horns, and an eloquent tuba whispering in the background. Along with his many musical skills Freebo is a world class tuba player and uses the instrument to subtle perfection here.
Just when the album threatens to become a real downer with the topical straight-from-the headlines tour de force “There’s No Place Like Home” that talks about serving your country, getting laid off, and ending up on the streets, the mood lightens considerably with the Jimmy Buffett on Bourbon Street sounding stomp “She loves My Dog More Than Me”. The lyric “A man’s best friend gets a girl in the end and I’m left holding the bone” is worth the price of admission alone. This is a story song John Prine would be proud of.
“My Personal GPS” Is a jaunty number with some nice bluesy guitar to complement this introspective song about his “Angel” his personal GPS that if only he would turn it on he would be guaranteed success. It all sounds so easy with a nice guitar solo in the middle of this great song. More clever lyrical genius here “She’s my Watson she’s my Tonto, never tardy always pronto”, makes me want to go find my personal GPS.
The title song, “Something To Believe” is somewhat of a personal call to arms to find something to believe, a wonderful sentiment and probably the most intimate and vulnerable song on the album.
The rocker on the album is ‘If Not Now When” that offers a sentiment and a personal anthem that everyone should heed my time is now, if not now, when. This song would fit in the catalogues of any of the fine musicians Freebo has worked with over the years.
– Walt Falconer
http://freebomusic.com/
- Cool Album Of The Day, Walt Falconer

Freebo “Something To Believe” – NEW MUSIC REVIEW
Posted 01 Aug 2011 in 10s, Albums of 2011, Albums of the 10s, Americana
In a cluttered world that seems to thrive on excess, self-promotion, and personal and political agendas, listening to Freebo and his new album is like riding on a cumulous cloud of peaceful awareness.
Freebo, in the music business since the sixties, has been part of Bonnie Raitt’s band for more than a decade and has become a sought after session musician working with the elite of Rock & Roll aristocracy including Ringo Starr, John Mayall, Crosby Stills & Nash, Maria Muldaur, The Bluesbusters as well as many others. Since embarking on his own Freebo has released four albums of his own cosmic blend of country, rock, soul, and folk, ear pleasing genre defying music.
His latest release, the appropriately named Something to Believe, contains 11 strong musically diverse songs that are at once uplifting while at the same time serve as mini socio-economic history lessons interspersed with beautiful melodic love songs. The album has a real 70’s mellow rock vibe, which after multiple listens brings to mind the early works of England Dan and John Ford Coley along with the mellow California style of Seals and Croft.
The album opens with “Standing Ovation” an uplifting (it that’s possible) song that talks about death from the perspective of a happy and healthy person, something that is not often covered in song or in life for that matter. People tend to only consider death when it is imminent. “When I die, give me a standing ovation, a celebration for a job well done” a wonderful sentiment sung over a warm bed of strings, subtle horns, and an eloquent tuba whispering in the background. Along with his many musical skills Freebo is a world class tuba player and uses the instrument to subtle perfection here.
Just when the album threatens to become a real downer with the topical straight-from-the headlines tour de force “There’s No Place Like Home” that talks about serving your country, getting laid off, and ending up on the streets, the mood lightens considerably with the Jimmy Buffett on Bourbon Street sounding stomp “She loves My Dog More Than Me”. The lyric “A man’s best friend gets a girl in the end and I’m left holding the bone” is worth the price of admission alone. This is a story song John Prine would be proud of.
“My Personal GPS” Is a jaunty number with some nice bluesy guitar to complement this introspective song about his “Angel” his personal GPS that if only he would turn it on he would be guaranteed success. It all sounds so easy with a nice guitar solo in the middle of this great song. More clever lyrical genius here “She’s my Watson she’s my Tonto, never tardy always pronto”, makes me want to go find my personal GPS.
The title song, “Something To Believe” is somewhat of a personal call to arms to find something to believe, a wonderful sentiment and probably the most intimate and vulnerable song on the album.
The rocker on the album is ‘If Not Now When” that offers a sentiment and a personal anthem that everyone should heed my time is now, if not now, when. This song would fit in the catalogues of any of the fine musicians Freebo has worked with over the years.
– Walt Falconer
http://freebomusic.com/
- Cool Album Of The Day, Walt Falconer

Freebo, Something to Believe (Poppabo Music): Probably best-known as the affable, Afro-topped bassist for Bonnie Raitt for more than a decade, eternal hippie Freebo suffers from the sideman syndrome of always being underappreciated. :And if I am a player/Who’s played his part well/And did it with humor/And grace/When I die/Give me a standing ovation/A celebration for a job well done,” he sings on the very first, folk-driven track on his fourth solo album, the follow-up to 2005’s Before the Separation, sung, obviously, from the point of view of someone much closer to the end of life than the beginning. Mortality is the theme to many of the songs here. “Now I’m still a dreamer,” he admits. “Like I was back then/But time keeps screamin’/If not now, when?” a tongue-in-cheek plea that he will keep doing what he’s doing, recognition or no. Freebo has more than proven his songwriting chops, but outdoes himself here with the potent “When There’s No Place Like Home,” a tale of a veteran who returns stateside, “Had my job and I had my pride/But they shipped them both to China,” leaving him homeless, a plaintive Chris Gage accordion subtly bringing home the point. He’s got a dandy sense of humor, too. “She Loves My Dog More Than Me” is exactly what the title says, a jaunty, New Orleans-style sing-dong funky blues, with breezy Lee Thornburg trumpets and Mark Goldenberg and Shane Fontayne on electric guitars. “My Personal GPS” equates inner being with the latest in technology. Both “On a Parallel Together” and “That’s What Love Is” espouse the’60s ideals of true love and the healing power of love, while “In the Afternoon Heat” has a dramatic Eagles-like feel and the closing “Sometimes It’s for Nothing” a gospel country rouser, with its swirling organ, church harmonies and Albert Lee blues runs. It is the title track, though, co-written with Eric Lowen, who suffers from the debilitating disease ALS, that is the emotional center of the album, a vow “And when it’s finally time for me/To leave this life behind/Sooner than I might wish it would be/Will I hear the angels sing/Will it stop my wondering/Will I finally feel like I am free?” It is what everyone hopes for, sweet release. Freebo’s music provides it in timeless fashion, proving some of those ideals of peace and love still have currency some 50 years later.

Roy Trakin, Hits Magazine

- Hits Magazine, Roy Trakin

Freebo, Something to Believe (Poppabo Music): Probably best-known as the affable, Afro-topped bassist for Bonnie Raitt for more than a decade, eternal hippie Freebo suffers from the sideman syndrome of always being underappreciated. :And if I am a player/Who’s played his part well/And did it with humor/And grace/When I die/Give me a standing ovation/A celebration for a job well done,” he sings on the very first, folk-driven track on his fourth solo album, the follow-up to 2005’s Before the Separation, sung, obviously, from the point of view of someone much closer to the end of life than the beginning. Mortality is the theme to many of the songs here. “Now I’m still a dreamer,” he admits. “Like I was back then/But time keeps screamin’/If not now, when?” a tongue-in-cheek plea that he will keep doing what he’s doing, recognition or no. Freebo has more than proven his songwriting chops, but outdoes himself here with the potent “When There’s No Place Like Home,” a tale of a veteran who returns stateside, “Had my job and I had my pride/But they shipped them both to China,” leaving him homeless, a plaintive Chris Gage accordion subtly bringing home the point. He’s got a dandy sense of humor, too. “She Loves My Dog More Than Me” is exactly what the title says, a jaunty, New Orleans-style sing-dong funky blues, with breezy Lee Thornburg trumpets and Mark Goldenberg and Shane Fontayne on electric guitars. “My Personal GPS” equates inner being with the latest in technology. Both “On a Parallel Together” and “That’s What Love Is” espouse the’60s ideals of true love and the healing power of love, while “In the Afternoon Heat” has a dramatic Eagles-like feel and the closing “Sometimes It’s for Nothing” a gospel country rouser, with its swirling organ, church harmonies and Albert Lee blues runs. It is the title track, though, co-written with Eric Lowen, who suffers from the debilitating disease ALS, that is the emotional center of the album, a vow “And when it’s finally time for me/To leave this life behind/Sooner than I might wish it would be/Will I hear the angels sing/Will it stop my wondering/Will I finally feel like I am free?” It is what everyone hopes for, sweet release. Freebo’s music provides it in timeless fashion, proving some of those ideals of peace and love still have currency some 50 years later.

Roy Trakin, Hits Magazine

- Hits Magazine, Roy Trakin

Freebo – Something to Believe
Posted on November 25, 2011 by Dan Harr

by Janet Goodman

Touring with blues rock icon Bonnie Raitt is a pretty good gig. That’s what singer/songwriter Freebo did for ten remarkable years. He was her bass player in the band back in the day, and built a reputation as a sought-after sessions musician, to boot. Since then, Freebo has had a solo career, and recently released his fourth album, “Something to Believe,” on his own Poppabo Music label.

This bluesy, folk-rocking project features eleven tracks (the artist has a hand in writing ten of them), self-produced along with Robert Tepper, and recorded in the music havens of Los Angeles, Nashville and Austin. Freebo’s intimate and go-down-easy personable vocals are at times reminiscent of vintage Cat Stevens. It’s a voice that can tie in light-hearted fare, social commentary and spiritual quest with love-sweet-love, and make it sound seamless.

Freebo’s at his best when he offers a little something out of the ordinary on a track, be it a lilting accordion on the would’ve-been-too-sad-without-it “When There’s No Place Like Home,” a French horn with a thoughtful lyric on “Standing Ovation,” or the off-beat metaphor used to describe how his honey keeps him on course in “My Personal GPS.” Stand-outs give the album some needed zing and pop: Texas rocker “She Loves My Dog More Than Me,” where the singer tells us how his domestic bliss gets a bite in the butt by a pooch, and “In the Afternoon Heat,” with its edgy, funky groove, thumping bass, psychedelic guitars and hooky lyric: “Green green canopy/Shimmerin’ in the breeze/So so physical/It knocked me to my knees/Two hearts quiverin’/Shiverin’ to the beat/On a cold cold waterway/In the afternoon heat.”

Visit the artist’s website at www.freebomusic.com
- Music News Nashville, Janet Goodman

Freebo – Something to Believe
Posted on November 25, 2011 by Dan Harr

by Janet Goodman

Touring with blues rock icon Bonnie Raitt is a pretty good gig. That’s what singer/songwriter Freebo did for ten remarkable years. He was her bass player in the band back in the day, and built a reputation as a sought-after sessions musician, to boot. Since then, Freebo has had a solo career, and recently released his fourth album, “Something to Believe,” on his own Poppabo Music label.

This bluesy, folk-rocking project features eleven tracks (the artist has a hand in writing ten of them), self-produced along with Robert Tepper, and recorded in the music havens of Los Angeles, Nashville and Austin. Freebo’s intimate and go-down-easy personable vocals are at times reminiscent of vintage Cat Stevens. It’s a voice that can tie in light-hearted fare, social commentary and spiritual quest with love-sweet-love, and make it sound seamless.

Freebo’s at his best when he offers a little something out of the ordinary on a track, be it a lilting accordion on the would’ve-been-too-sad-without-it “When There’s No Place Like Home,” a French horn with a thoughtful lyric on “Standing Ovation,” or the off-beat metaphor used to describe how his honey keeps him on course in “My Personal GPS.” Stand-outs give the album some needed zing and pop: Texas rocker “She Loves My Dog More Than Me,” where the singer tells us how his domestic bliss gets a bite in the butt by a pooch, and “In the Afternoon Heat,” with its edgy, funky groove, thumping bass, psychedelic guitars and hooky lyric: “Green green canopy/Shimmerin’ in the breeze/So so physical/It knocked me to my knees/Two hearts quiverin’/Shiverin’ to the beat/On a cold cold waterway/In the afternoon heat.”

Visit the artist’s website at www.freebomusic.com
- Music News Nashville, Janet Goodman

Freebo
Before the Separation
(Poppabo, 4 stars)
Best known for a long career as a sideman to some of rock's biggest names, including a decade as bassist for Bonnie Raitt, Freebo has stepped up into a new role - singer-songwriter. It suits him well.
Before the Separation, the L.A.-based ex-Philadelphian's third album, flows
with a compassionate spirit rooted in '60s ideals, but packing a gently
urgent relevancy. The songs are built on Freebo's acoustic guitar and
fretless bass, giving them a sublimely folkish foundation that occasionally
heads off into rock and soul (the horn-kissed "The Beauty of Life"). The finale, "The Freedom Wall," shows that, in addition to an engaging earnestness, Freebo is also capable of biting irony (www.freebomusic.com)

Nick Cristiano


- Philadelphia Inquirer

Freebo
Before the Separation
(Poppabo, 4 stars)
Best known for a long career as a sideman to some of rock's biggest names, including a decade as bassist for Bonnie Raitt, Freebo has stepped up into a new role - singer-songwriter. It suits him well.
Before the Separation, the L.A.-based ex-Philadelphian's third album, flows
with a compassionate spirit rooted in '60s ideals, but packing a gently
urgent relevancy. The songs are built on Freebo's acoustic guitar and
fretless bass, giving them a sublimely folkish foundation that occasionally
heads off into rock and soul (the horn-kissed "The Beauty of Life"). The finale, "The Freedom Wall," shows that, in addition to an engaging earnestness, Freebo is also capable of biting irony (www.freebomusic.com)

Nick Cristiano


- Philadelphia Inquirer

"Longtime fans of Freebo (like me) won't be surprised by his ability to turn a collection of songs about dogs into a very moving and musical experience. Sure, anyone who's ever loved a pooch will embrace this one, but DOG PEOPLE stands on its own musically and provides further proof that Feeebo has emerged as a master of his craft". -- David Adelson, E!Entertainment, Hits Magazine

- Hits Magazine, E Entertainment

"Longtime fans of Freebo (like me) won't be surprised by his ability to turn a collection of songs about dogs into a very moving and musical experience. Sure, anyone who's ever loved a pooch will embrace this one, but DOG PEOPLE stands on its own musically and provides further proof that Feeebo has emerged as a master of his craft". -- David Adelson, E!Entertainment, Hits Magazine

- Hits Magazine, E Entertainment

"'Before the Separation' deftly transports the listener into the eye of a hurricane to quietly observe, while Freebo calmly describes the spiritual storm that rages on all sides." - Bill Thames, Shake Magazine, Nashville - Shake Magazine, Nashville

"'Before the Separation' deftly transports the listener into the eye of a hurricane to quietly observe, while Freebo calmly describes the spiritual storm that rages on all sides." - Bill Thames, Shake Magazine, Nashville - Shake Magazine, Nashville

"A sincere and amusing tribute to man's (and women's) best friend" --Jonathan Takiff, Philadelphia Daily News - Philadelphia Daily News

"A sincere and amusing tribute to man's (and women's) best friend" --Jonathan Takiff, Philadelphia Daily News - Philadelphia Daily News

"What the new CD (Before The Separation) reveals is a very good songwriter at work, with thoughtful, articulate lyrics and original melodies, beautifully arranged." -- Arthur Elliott, "Sidestream" Radio 99.7 FM, Brisbane, Australia

- Sidestream Radio, Brisbane, Australia

"What the new CD (Before The Separation) reveals is a very good songwriter at work, with thoughtful, articulate lyrics and original melodies, beautifully arranged." -- Arthur Elliott, "Sidestream" Radio 99.7 FM, Brisbane, Australia

- Sidestream Radio, Brisbane, Australia

"Fumnny,charming, and touching,yet musically cool!"--Tony Braunagle, Grammy Award Winning Producer - Tony Braunagle, Grammy Blues Producer

"Fumnny,charming, and touching,yet musically cool!"--Tony Braunagle, Grammy Award Winning Producer - Tony Braunagle, Grammy Blues Producer