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Quick Hits:
"A song like "Giants" is one many of us will be humming to ourselves as we speak up,
speak out and march towards voting booths in 2006 and 2008
to turn America around."
--Tony Peyser, BuzzFlash.com
"One of the best albums I've heard this year...I can't recommend it
highly enough to lovers of pure, organic music"
--Peter Ashton, Playing Out
Loud, UK
"This Texas songwriter isn't afraid to
use a guitar to get his message across...
quality song craft."
--Paste Magazine
"A great folk/Americana album...'Shock and Awe' is the best political song
I've heard all year."
--Greg Grant, Online Folk Festival
"Compelling and poignant...a brilliant winner of a recording."
--Chris Darling, host of "Us Folk"/WMPG-FM
"To call him literate would be an understatement...Hinely's writing ability earns him a
place alongside other Texas luminaries such as Earle, Van Zandt and Keen."
--Don Grant, Freight Train Boogie
"An exquisite storyteller...picture perfect roots rock."
--Pop Matters Magazine
"I was completely blown away by this record."
--Catherine Tully, Indie-Music
"A voice bristling with personality reminiscent of the best Texas singers
and even Van Morrison...a new classic"
--Carlo Lancini, Roots Highway
"Somebody was thinking outside of the box during this recording session!"
--Stephen Hug, Americana Roots
For We Built a Fire
"just brilliant...has the rare ability to completely engross the listener and transport
him or her to another place and time."
--Dave Higgs, host of NPR's Bluegrass Breakdown
"much better than anything to come from mainstream Nashville since the Garth Brooks,
anti-Hank crowd took over."
--Indie Music
"a fine eye for the truths of the ordinary and the shadowy sides of life"
--Roots66 Magazine
"Cut from the same cloth as great songwriters such as Lyle Lovett, Steve Earle, and Robert
Earl Keen, he might just be the next big thing."
--Cincinnati Enquirer
"a terrific, rootsy slab of Americana"
--Santa Monica Mirror
"a genuine master"
--Dagger Magazine
"quality songwriting...simply great"
--Pop Matters Magazine
"vivid storytelling lyrics peppered with pieces of reality that
make each song memorable"
--Paste
"a searing piece of work"
--Independent Songwriter Magazine
"When did you LAST get such a sense of excitement?
Even Slaid Cleaves didn't make your nerve ends feel quite so alive"
--Folk World
"an astonishing record, bursting with lyrics so simple and so incisive you'd
swear Townes must have been ghostwriting"
--Rockzillaworld Magazine
"Literate, well-sculpted singer-songwriter Americana;
countrified poetics, along the lines of Robert Earl Keene, Jr."
--Joe Sixpack's Country Music Guide
"sharply written Americana"
--Choice Cuts
"a gifted singer/songwriter"
--Twang-Tone Magazine
"one of the premier Americana artists today"
--Planet Country
"what really impresses is Hinely's songwriting which
is technically very proficient with elegant lyrics fitting into
well-constructed musical frameworks."
--Country Music People
"reminiscent of the irony of Loudon Wainwright III"
--Lone Star Time
For Glass Instrumental Music:
"a lot of Bach for the buck...a musician who combines talent and touch"
--Terry Bulger, WSMV-TV, Nashville
For Ghost Fiddle Suite
"beautiful and unique"
--Ceili Magazine
For Midwinter Carols
"a refreshing innocence...haunting and powerful"
--All Music Guide
"displays the amazing range of this ancient folk instrument...
tasteful and extraordinarily beautiful"
--Amazon.com
"a wonderfully novel and elegant indulgence...ethereal"
--ChristmasReviews.com
Reviews and articles:
For Giants:
For We Built a Fire:
Joe Sixpack's Country Music Guide
Lone Star Time (Italy)
Glass Music
Brave Spirits, Rambles Magazine
Re-Elect the Moon, Rambles Magazine
Ghost Fiddle Suite, Ceili Magazine
Contact:
3064 Old New Cut Road
Springfield, TN. 37172
(615)384-9872
©2005 donal hinely