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Sticks & Stones

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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.

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!

they DO come back...felt like i was in a seance visited by the ghosts of fahey and hedges and yet even perhaps Robbie Basho sat in for the session.this guy is everything and then some. why aren't there more c/ds out here by rob eberhard? such a delicate touch, an almost zen-like sensitivity to the material needs to be more available. if you love fahey and hedges,you will think the ghosts have somehow found a reunion in this disc. buy it and fly...trance dance will definitely take you there.

This is the best acoustic guitar record I have bought in years. It was not removed from the CD machine for months and I find myself returning to it again and again. I was first made aware of Rob by watching the Will Ackerman video, "Modern Luthier," where you get to see and hear Rob play "Rhumbline." I bought this record the next day. Will Ackerman has discovered and promoted another awesome talent. (I'm looking forward to more releases from Imaginary Road.)

The music is ... beautiful, powerful, driving or melodic. He has a unique voice: you haven't heard the steel string guitar played this way before. It's beautiful; but edgey enough to not go into the background.

It's hard to describe; but it's great. Just give a listen: buy this record!

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.

The "Corn" is how REY refers to his sound. Sticks & Stones is it. This is one of my top CD's of all time and stays near if not in my CD player at all times. I originally heard the song "Elizabeth" on digital cable radio at a friend's house and wrote down Rob's name as I was blown away by the song.

The CD starts of with tribal influences flowing right into "Trance Dance" and does not disappoint. Michael Hedges appears on the track "Mr. Possum" and Michael Manring's (bassist extraordinaire) signature and playing are pervasive as well. Favorite tracks are the afore-mentioned "Elizabeth", "En Soleil" and "Magister Ludi" (a reference to Herman Hesse's Glass Bead Game novel). The CD ends on a unique note with Rob looping a riff through a Lexicon Jam Man during the hidden track "Christopher Contemplates The Edge". I find myself listening very deliberately on all the tracks to hear the different guitar's that Rob uses as well, from his Koa Jumbo to the Martin Parlor.

This is just one of those CD's that you will find yourself wishing for a set of headphones so you have no outside influences or if you do have a pair, pressing them so hard against your ears to not miss a note. BUY THIS CD.

I stumbled on this artist/album by reading a post on a guitar forum I visit and then flipping over to amazon to listen to a few cuts. I liked the clips - check them out - and when I got the CD I really enjoyed the entire album. After a few listenings though, I was totally mesmerized (where's the spell check?). This is one of my favorites. Its deep, moody, brooding. Its great. I'd love to see some more work from him.

I first listened to Rob Eberhard Young on Echoes, an intellectual radio program played on PRM on Sunday nights. Immediately, I thought that his music was creative, contemplative, relaxing, and intellectual. His skill with the guitar is absolutely amazing. If you want to relax and read a novel or ponder the mysteries of life, then this is the music to play. Bottom line: He is a genuis.

I admit that I compare all guitarists to Michael Hedges. In that shadow, most fail. Young, however, shows amazing potential. His style has an aggressive--usually--feel to it that reminds you the sound is coming from wood and steel. Unfortunately, some songs fall flat and even approach horrible. One song--you'll know it when you hear it--has such a loud amplification of fingers scraping up the strings that it is unbearable until about a minute into the song. What comes after that acoustic sacrilege comes a GREAT song. This album is a real roller coaster ride. Luckily, with modern audio equipment, you can just skip to the parts you like . . . and there are many parts to like. Definitely worth buying!