I love the first track Heart Attack, it's just right for an opener, followed by catchy win or lose which gets you going. love that track. Oh Little Girl is another fast track i really like. Broken In Two is a lovely ballad has a nice acoustic sound to it. So does Cold Apples. Fix My Dreams is what i call a driving song, speeding down highway, roof open - great stuff, same with Piscataway it's catchy Amercian rock. Blue Ribbon Baby slows down the pace and I love it. It's a great song. Great vocals. Just a Boy is kinda country-ish, slow paced but great. Joni Mitchell Was Right is a great, catchy number, love it. Favorite Dream is another kinda slower, countryish sounding song,got a kinda haunting theme to it,laid back,love it. I havent had time to listen to all the words but i love what I've heard, it's a great album. Ill be playing songs on our station when I update playlist in few weeks. its also recorded well hdcd I believe.

This is a great album. The key to this record is in the songs. Honestly produced and tightly arranged, Alec Gross expertly delivers you the theme, tells you why you should care, and all the while decorates it in a way that drives every lyric home. Stand-out tracks: Heart Attack, Cold Apples (great rhodes sound), Blue-Ribbon Baby (great female harmony), and Just A Boy (Stand-out lyric: But that Mexican Skyline it shines so bright/ I can't hold, no I can't hold...) killer.

Alec Gross combines Americana and heartland rock with a strain of folksy gentleness and a knack for melody. Raw honesty is the first and deepest impression that these songs make. Gross sings them in an emotional, slightly quavery voice reminiscent of Michael Stipe. Themes of lost love and disappointment predominate. "Broken In Two" declares: "Break me in two/One for me and one for you/One man to lie and say he's true/The other will leave but he'll still love you." And the simple, deadly refrain of "Cold Apples" cuts right to the heart: "I will wait/But not for you." But the songs take every possible viewpoint on the matter. "Joni Mitchell Was Right (1-2-3)" is a funny depiction of glimpsing a former lover looking oh-so-fine, while "Blue-Ribbon Baby" finds the beauty in sad resignation. "Piscataway" and "Just a Boy" are effective, Springsteen-esque depictions of moving away and growing up. My only criticism is that in the harder-rocking songs the arrangements and guitar sounds are rather old-fashioned - I don't dislike them, but a more modern sensibility in that area might widen the appeal, especially since the songs and vocals are so winning. (The synth in "Fix My Dreams," however, which is right out of "Lucky Man," is the cool kind of retro.)