Search - Mike Errico :: Pictures of the Big Vacation

Great Job, but can't equal Mike Live!

rperrott@book.com | New York City | 06/09/1999

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Fortunately, we Manhattanites have been able to listen to Mike on a semi-regular basis live at great places like the Bitter End. This album is good, very good...but the added instrumentation adds unneeded complexity to such beautiful songs. To see Mike Live is an ephemeral experience, please try to catch him when he comes to your area.Until then, this album, along with his two self-produced ones will be more than enough to tide you over."

Streams That Crack Like Frozen Lakes

Lee Armstrong | Winterville, NC United States | 01/31/2008

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Lesley Gore recorded Mike Errico's "Someday" on her recent Ever Since CD. The track on that recording is excellent with Gore sounding like a newborn Nina Simone. Because of that, I was curious to hear Errico's original recording on this CD. "Pictures of the Big Vacation" is a good set. Errico can rock vociferously as on "Daylight" that burns with its riotous talk-sing, "If my life were a movie, you'd be buried in the credits; you'd be Woman #2 with her head up her a*s." "God" is a jazz shuffle with Mike's scruffy vocals, "The story moves and we turn the page. God is the part that does not change." "Springtime" is a jazz-pop piece with a loose feel, "I wonder what you've dreamed that makes you smile that way at me." The CD concludes with the lovely "Someday," a little looser that the amazing Gore version, but showing how a strong songwriter's material can shine, "Past the streams that crack like frozen lakes under children's figure skates, I'm going. Past all of my own mistakes, a thousand more I've yet to make but I am going." Other tracks like "Round & Round" & "Sooner or Later" are also strong. Errico the songwriter may be stronger than Errico the vocalist, but his material is well worth discovering. Enjoy!"

Wide variety of quality music

R. Storrs | Connecticut | 04/30/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Mike Errico offers us a spectrum of music on "Pictures of the Big Vacation". I caught him live a couple years ago and eagerly awaited his album. Definitely worth the wait. Especially liked "When She Walks By", an ode to seizing the day. Great album, something for everyone--now I'm just waiting for him to come play in my neck of the woods."