Band - Paul Mills

"When I heard that veteran record producer and guitarist Paul Mills (aka Curly Boy Stubbs) was recording his own album after three decades of helping other people’s music sound good, I expected an excellent set of acoustic guitar instrumentals. Indeed, that’s what Mills has delivered on half this album: inventive Mills compositions like Stubbs Stomp and London Scratch and fine versions of tunes borrowed from the likes of Doc Watson and John Fahey. The big surprise here is Mills’s emergence as an authoritative vocalist on half of the tracks, again combining strong original material with convincing interpretations of songs like Stan Rogers’s 45 Years, whose classic original Mills produced 30 years ago, and Albert’s Cove, David Essig’s haunting ballad about a suicide in New Brunswick. ****"

Mike Regenstreif, Montreal Gazette