HOLLOW BONES IN CLEVELAND MAGAZINE

"After more than a decade and a half of playing music, 32-year-old Chris Castle is still a well-kept secret. Maybe it's because the Norwalk, Ohio-based singer/songwriter put down his guitar for six years before re-emerging last summer to record this 11-song collection, which feels like a confession from the heart of the American Midwest. His soulful voice and engaging lyrics rest easily over stripped-down skeletons of acoustic guitar that shuffle along dirt roads and through tired towns. These are songs shaded with longing and loss and redemption. Castle says he aimed to create "an album of songs rather than production and arrangement". What he ends up with is an authentic connection to the world-weary soul of American Roots Music."

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Cleveland Magazine (May 2008)