Search - Rob Eberhard Young :: Sticks & Stones

Has Sensibilities.

Robert Lunte | Seattle, WA USA | 04/23/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Other reviews may comment on Young's chops or some moments that are reminicent of Michael Hedges, thats all fine....but who doesn't have great chops and hasn't taken inspiration from MH??This CD is sensitive and the music is pretty. The playing and composition is patient, reserved and each note is carefully taken into account. Spacious and colorfull.Makes for a very non-pretentious and effective listening pleasure.Great player, great musician. Added bass from Michael Manring is a bonus. Solo guitar fans will be love it."

All time Classic!!

Rosalie Buttery | DURBAN, Kwa-Zulu Natal South Africa | 06/18/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Wow! What an album. Rob Eberhard Young is one of the most passionate guitarists I have ever heard. Both his fingerstyle and his wacka-wacka (which Hedges would call it) is such a pleasure to listen to. There is just so much between the notes. Passion. There loads of movement in songs like Trance Dance and Magister Ludi whilst there's also soothing tracks like En Soleil (featuring Will Ackerman) and Jeremy (which was actually recorded in some cave in Bali). The album also features an amazing 25 minute hidden track of guitar loops that always drives me into an hypnotic state. Sticks and Stones also features the Great Michael Hedges on harp guitar on the powerful Mr. Possum and Michael Manring on e-bow and bass on a few tracks too. REY's second album, Sticks and Stones will take you places that no one has been able to and won't allow you back. Buy it NOW!"

Sexy, Mystical and Soul Stirring

LavenderMoon | East Coast | 01/24/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I love to find good music for listening to during intimacy. Rob Eberhard Youngs guitar stylings have all the requirements of a mood setter. He should make an entire collection of ballad type songs just for listening to alone with a significant other. This man has to be a tender lover, for he knows exactly how to romance the guitar for optimum results.

It is rare to find something I can listen to in its entirety. Rob Eberhard Young is a guitar genius. I confess, I bought 'Sticks and Stones' on a whim. I had no idea what I was purchasing. I only knew that I enjoy good guitar music and I chose this CD, quite out of an innocent desire to try something new. I am an amateur at playing the guitar. Listening to Young wrap his mind around the frets, makes me think I ought to spend more time with it. Creative, innovative, intriguing, and captivating. I can't recommend this CD highly enough for the sheer ingenuity of it all. I am impressed and I think you will be, too. It has all the smoky, cimmerian mysticism necessary for being transported to another dimension.

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