The previous year, I submitted a best-of sampler for review to San Diego Citybeat. This year, I had a new album coming out, so I selected three strong tracks from that and sent them in:
I also produced and played on a demo recording by The Epic Silence, and we sent in the three tracks we had in the can, so I was actually getting two reviews in the March 2, 2011 issue. The review of my CD is mainly interesting for what's not written. The reviewer includes some biographical information that was not part of the package I sent in. Obviously, he was intrigued enough to go to my web site and check me out. The band review sounds pretty lackluster, but whereas the reviewer obviously didn't like Santana, our lead guitarist did, so it was a compliment for him to be, at least in a review, keeping company with his hero. As far as "disjointed lyrics," I always felt that the writer's lyrics were his strength. Seems the reviewer just missed that.