Album Notes

"I realize the year has only just started but in my opinion if Ordinary Suffering doesn’t make my end of year list for 2009 then god damnit, 2009 must have been quite the year; and I promise you that there’s not even the slightest hint of hyperbole. Turney has written a five track masterpiece of an EP and did I mention, it was recorded and mixed all in the space of 24 hours? From the opening 10 seconds of ‘Lose Your Head’ to the dying embers of ‘My Mother's Son’, I was completely hooked."

-Oliver Primus The 405, 1/05/09

"...the following player had a hard act to follow in Murphy, and he absolutely kicked ass. Myles Turney played a passionate, virtuosic mix of acoustic delta blues along with a few choice Hank Williams covers, rearranged for slide and open tunings. Nobody left the room til he was done playing. "

-Lucid Culture, 1/24/08

"I usually don't fall for singer-songwriter types (they usually can't hold my interest for an entire set), but there was something honest and immediate about Myles Turney that won me over. He plays a southern style of bluesy acoustic folk with a mixture of finger-picking and slide guitar over sharp, witty, dynamic vocals. He had a way of completely getting lost in the moment of each song, that reminds us of the power that a single musician can have in conveying an idea or emotion with just a guitar and voice. Hilites included a ballad that he apparently wrote "3 weeks ago," and also a mccain-palin-bashing political rant that was both entertaining and timely."

-Adam Ghory, 10/27/08