Search - Bob Martin :: The River Turns The Wheel

This is Martin's Third album and one that has met with some pretty impressive critical acclaim. Chosen "The Best Folk CD in 1997" by several major newspapers and magazines such as The San Jose Mercury News, The Lowell Sun, The Electric City News and other periodicals, this CD continues to generate interest and praise as an important work by "one of Americas best songwriters". The Acoustic/folk music scene is still buzzing with incredible reviews in Acoustic Musician Magazine, Folk Roots Magazine, Gavin Magazine, Relix Magazine and many others. Possessed of a slightly raspy voice, singer/songwriter Bob Martin delivers some very powerful imagery and depth in the lyrics of these twelve songs. Martin is the internationally recognized poet of the sleazy all-night diner, the flea bag hotel, the jazz man musician sleeping in his station wagon, with images of late night subway trains, fishing from an abandoned train trestle, a failed economy, long-abandoned textile mills and so much more. Martin presents an image of his hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts that has been compared to the early work of Jack Kerouac. In fact one of the songs, "Stella Kerouac", brings to life a portrait of Kerouac's third and last wife, Stella. At the same time, the song also etches one of the finest images we've seen of Jack. Widely heralded as one of the most important CD's to be released in 1997, The River Turns the Wheel is a brilliant collection of songs that read like three-minute novels and will continue to delight and entertain as a classic treasure for many years to come.