press clippings and compilation appearances in chronological order…
Ride Me There LYBT001: I Love You Becky Thatcher Recordings’ presents a compilation of contemporary and independent Pittsburgh music released on cassette. A song of our first album ‘Songs for Haney’ was chosen. We share the tape with friends Echos Myron, Limpin Roosevelt Barnes, Kid Brother, Dire Wolves, Sports Metaphors, and many more.
Chernobyl Lives Volume One : “Chernobyl Lives” is the companion CD to “Bam Pow”, a fine-art zine released by Chernobyl Collective Arts. Also featuring The Armchairs (RIP) Da Comrade, and many others.
Under the Radar Magazine Compilation – “Radio’ from Great Big Light featured in the mags free comp distributed with the winter issue.
Pittsburgh City Paper: “Great Big Light is a difficult record to pigeonhole. If you mix Robbie Robertson’s concept of Americana with the pop sensibility of the Magnetic Fields, you might be close. The album moves effortlessly from soulful country sway (“Pack It Up”) to baroque pop progressions (“Deep End”), with some surprisingly well-executed moments of ’50s-style harmony and hypnotic krautrock scattered throughout.”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: “Ursa Major has since gone electric and added drums, but “Great Big Light” reveals that the ragged folk vibe is still very much with it.”
Review of 9/24 show with Elf Power
Interview with Pittsburgh Music Report “Well some of us work more than others, but I think you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone in PGH who is a full-time musician. Jimmy is training to be a taxidermist, Ben is a farmer, Tim is an aristocrat, Kyle is a full-time grifter and I write commercials.”
Review of ‘Great Big Light’ by ‘A Floor Lamp’ “Great Big Light, recorded by Eli Wenger of Los Halos in Phoenixville, PA. It’s only about 33 minutes long, but not a second is wasted. The record runs the gamut from Creedence/Stones-inspired chooglin’ (“Free To Roam”) to doo-wop/soul revival (“Cabin Fever”) to lovesick folk ballads (“Fox and Mole”). The album’s highlights include the aforementioned tracks, as well as “Radio”, an intense rock n’ roll rave-up that really shines live, and “Jimmy Swim”, perhaps the best damn song on the whole album, a near-indescribable folk/rock masterpiece which wouldn’t sound out of place on Let It Be or Songs From Big Pink.”
Review of 2/14/2010 ‘Heart Shaped Box Social’
Review of 8/1/2009 Phoenixville show
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