Album Reviews

 

Hobo Postcards (2011)

"This is raucous music that knows how to get in your face right from the off...think The Pogues at their most engaging, singing early Tom Waits. There's a new songwriter on the block, and he's going to be around for quite some time, like or not." - Leicester Bangs

"A backroads troubadour with a few things to say by way of viscera, nerve and hard experience...basically a raunchy Bob Dylan with blood in his teeth. There's death, disease, and doom aplenty in this disc's collection of ominously ebony sagas, all delivered in a timbre sending shivers up the spine while fascinating the mind, a snake mesmerizing its feathery dinner." - FAME Reviews

"A unique and wonderful listening experience...filled with melancholy, anger, despair and perserverence. Get out a bottle of whiskey and enjoy. 4.5/5" - MUZIK Reviews

"A glimpse into the world beyond the train tracks...Hobo Postcards is a love letter to the open road, turning a patchwork of folk, rock, punk, jazz and Celtic influences into a chronicle of life in the underground."  - The Boundary Communicator

"An audio photo album from a vagabond's travels...the addition of drums and electric guitar adds some more drive to Andrew's exploration of the fantastical and familiar...an album that illuminates an otherworldly road, wandered by so many travelers and ghosts." - BC Musician Magazine

"Really Fucking Great." - Todd Serious, The Rebel Spell

 

Treehouses & Trainsmoke (2010)

"That slap-dash, DIY approach also shows up in Andrew's music, which he describes as 'folk-noir.' It presents a street-level view of the world through fiddle and acoustic guitar and stories of poverty and hardship. His latest EP, 'Treehouses & Trainsmoke,' even features chord changes in the liner notes to help others learn the songs." - Lewis Kelly, Vue Weekly

 

Vagabonds & Wastrels (2009)

"A wordsmith and poet...Andrew has harnessed his muse on hobos, heartsick pilgrims and the demons left on the highway." - Americana UK

"An album that not only tips its hat to Utah Phillips and Tom Waits, but also asks them to sit down for a while. The easy strumming, underlined by fiddling, plays in washes of accordion and organ and soon you're sticking your thumb out on the Highway of Tears or sharing a bottle with Kerouac. The draw of the road is palpable, but so is the desire to find a place to call home." - Carolyn Nikodym, Vue Weekly

"A two-sided record on a one-sided disc, the album begins with familiar folk fare: love, drunks, killers and working-class heroes, before descending into an underworld of faeries, ghosts and madness." - BC Musician Magazine

"With a voice like rusted steel creaking in the wind...(Andrew)'s songs echo the drama and dust of the old folksingers." - Comox Valley Record

"Andrew sings like a hard-traveling vagabond spinning midnight madrigals with the ghosts of the modern world." - Penticton Western News

 

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