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2007/10/10 - Review of T&D from Leicester Bangs website 2006/01/10 - Review of 1994's Under Your Feet by CDbaby.com 2005/03/31 - Toronto Star Article on Hobbs and Roots Music for Africa 2004/12/04 - Review of T&P on The Live Music Report 2004/11/25 - Review of T&P on Belgium's Ctrl alt Country 2004/11/20
- Review on The
Live Music Report (show with Eric
Andersen) 2004/10/01 -
Review of T&P on Belgium's
rootstime.be (click here for
translation) 2004/07/17 - Review of T&P by Steve Ekblad at audiogrid.com 2004/06/20 - Review by Pastor Ben Squires 2004/06/18 - Penguin Eggs review by Shawna Biamonte 2004/05/01 - Review by Waylon Digges on the Roots Music Report 2004/03/18 - Ottawa X Press article by Fateema Sayani 2004/02/19 - Eye Magazine article by Howard Druckman 2004/02/19 - Toronto Star article by Vit Wagner |
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TORONTO
STAR, thursday, may 10, 2001- p. g3
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Review of Drake Motel from Hamilton's VIEW MAGAZINE March 1-7,2001
by Ric Taylor
• Greg hobbs is an expatriate Hamiltonian and even though he left, I'll say he could in fact be destined for greatness. As a Toronto singer-songwriter, he says a lot of things I want to say on his album Drake Motel. It's the true sign of a good lyricist when he makes you want to quote him in our own conversation. Whether it be dealing with end to a relationship ("Tease") or its subsequent end ("Country Music") or just not having a relationship ("Satisfied Look"). Actually there's a vast array of lyrical insight to love and the lovelorn and the truly sad or at least pierced people that populate "Your Face". With a Gordon Lightfoot-type flair for Canadiana narrative, Hobbs leans more to winning the award for best Jakob Dylan impersonation. The music is solid and singersongwriter-folkesque with a country twinge, offset by seamless production. The singing is breathy and, well, Dylanesque (Jr. or Sr.) but it's the lyrics that'll screw your heart to the wall: "And if you catch my heart and find that it's all wrong for you - don't break me". He's fragile like his music and definitely worth the listen.
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