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Superb Songwriting + Circus Freaks = JVA

C. KIEFER | Rocklin, CA | 12/14/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Like his first 2 CD releases, Jeroan Van Aichen's 3rd CD is a beautiful collection of songs. But more than that: it is also a strange, suprising, and sometimes frightening emotional document. The killer acoustic guitar riffery of "Poor Boy Be" reminds one of Lucinda Williams, while the interludes (the best of which is a field recording of a drunk alley singer) remind of the film "Carnival of Souls."JVA is a true original and an artist who will be very, very famous 3 days after he's dead and gone. Enjoy him while he's here, folks. True brilliance doesn't come around often on this little rock."