SF Chronicle Reviews Buckeye Knoll
www.buckeyeknoll.com download today. Independent Oakland, CA Folk Pop Rock band Buckeye Knoll get an AMAZING album review for their debut full length album "People and Place" in the San Francisco Chronicle. The review went a little something like this "With "People and Place," a geographical journey becomes a musical journey as singer-songwriter Doug Streblow offers 12 infectiously sweet indie-rock/folk songs about moving on. In a light tenor, Streblow offers gentle commentary about one man's personal quest for love and knowledge, which sometimes means having to leave things behind. Although some of the songs have a similar, waltz-like structure, there's more than enough musical variety and inventiveness in the aptly titled "I Roll," highlighted by Ruben Rios' drums. Other cuts, such as "Counting Sunsets," are marked by gently ironic lyrics, with Streblow summing up a journey and a life with the refrain, "Counting sunsets as the present rolls along." While much of the album is acoustic, Streblow wires up for "The Truth," offering sweet electric guitar licks throughout. Streblow is the real deal, blessed with an expressive voice and solid guitar skills. But, in the end, what makes the album unforgettable are the song lyrics - deceptively conversational and indifferent to the straitjacket of rhyme: "I'll seek the truth in the darkest hours," he sings in "Luck Be a Lady," "I'll recognize the beauty in the breakdown/ The paradox is the only truth."' -David Wiegand San <b>...</b>
