Find a folk singer/songwriter who has been around since the 1960s, and you’ll find a sage with a distinctive style and wit who puts to music vital pieces of Americana. That’s what you'll find in Lenny Solomon. Solomon’s new CD Armando’s Pie offers listeners fourteen songs that feature Solomon’s unusual voice, clean guitar strumming, and soulful harmonica playing, which seem to provide the perfect accompaniment for the experiences, emotions and American culture that he sings about. In Armando’s Pie, listeners will track with Solomon through cryptic and often humorous social commentary in songs like “Global Warming Blues," “The Vegan Song” and “Life At The Time." As you might expect from a folk singer, Solomon’s music talks about watershed moments in history, as in the song “Gettysburg." Also in the mix are songs like the title track, in which he heralds the virtues not only of the food, but also the ethnicity of his favorite pizza store. Love songs also dot the landscape of Solomon’s song selection. Songs like “One More Night” and “Come Take My Hand” are notable examples that will resonate with anybody who has ever said goodbye to someone they love. This CD should of course be added to the playlist of everyone who loves folk music, but the message and the appeal of Armando’s Pie is big enough and important enough to earn a spot in every CD collection.

Impeccably performed and constructed Contemporary Folk music, filled with humorous and witty observations. Particularly good tracks are "The Vegan Song" and "Jews In Country Music", which had me laughing out loud. I wish Mr. Solomon luck in finding an appropriately large audience for his work.

Singer/songwriter/guitarist Lenny Solomon has a familiar, dusty old voice that rings of Bob Dylan, and on his new album Armando’s Pie, Solomon delivers fourteen well-crafted songs rich with emotion, musicality and lore. Armed with an acoustic guitar, a glockenspiel, shakers, his voice and a harmonica, Solomon performs upbeat tunes that flow easy and sure as a cool running brook. His acoustic guitar work is capable and true while his harmonic playing wails emotive. While he turns in fine vocal performances on all fourteen cuts it is the songs “Five More Minutes,” Dead Man Smile,” the lighthearted “He’s A Cowboy,” and “Life At The Time” that really shine. Solomon turned to Bill Mason at Second Story Studio to record these songs and Mason did a fine job capturing Solomon’s sentiment. Mason also contributes a lead guitar track as well as bass lines on several cuts rounding out this excellent sounding album. -Doug Sloan-Metronome Magazine, September 2004

Lenny Solomon is one of the many gifted singer-songwriters currently on the scene. His music has a delicately honed urgency that often reminds me of early Bob Dylan. On the opening track on Armando's Pie, "Five More Minutes," the similarity is marked -- and I mean that as a compliment to Lenny. He writes and sings on matters that will touch the lives of most people at some time. But he also adds that magic ingredient called humour to some of the tracks. He seems to realise that we all love lyrics with meaning but we do not want to be submerged in causes and earnest pleas. The title track appears to be about pizza, but he gives us the tale of the immigrant opening his store with a light touch and holds your attention. If a real Armando ever opens a pizza store, he has a ready-made advertisement here. From the newcomer he switches to the long-time resident and brings us south with a smell of magnolia as we meet and hear the tale of "Margaret." The songs are varied and the subjects are wide-ranging. Guess what is being examined with lines like, "He loves to go shopping in his SUV and a fridge as big as Venus, a stove as big as Mars." The track is "Global Warming Blues." One of my favourite tracks is a great country-sounding piece called "He's a Cowboy." This brings the rider of the range up to the 21st century but with a sense of respect mingled with the humour. Solomon stays in a humourous country vein on the beautifully titled "Jews in Country Music." This song reminds me of the best of Shel Silverstein with tongue firmly in cheek as he is "looking for a country Lenny Bernstein." My love of the story-song and history pointed me directly to "Gettysburg," and there I found my top track. Here is a song that brings the horror of war on a one to one basis home to the listener. The 14 tracks on this CD are all excellent and diverse enough to ensure that any listener will find a few that could become favourites. Solomon has the wisdom of that other person of that name. He gives us songs to make us think but never lets the message get in the way of the fact that to transmit any message, the medium must grab and hold our attention. - written by Nicky Rossiter for www.Rambles.net and www.folking.com