Album Notes

This is the guy that everyone's been listening to on their phone - even before he ever cut his first CD.


This is also the guy that will get people in their thirties and forties to start buying new music again.

Reviews: (I) "thought it was pretty good to be honest." - A high ranking record industry executive. Others have dared to admit they like it, too.

Here's one: "We thought it sounded great." - Leen Steen at Tocado-records.


The Man with No Name's voice frequently comes across like a male version of Dido. But to pigeonhole him into a specific musical genre wouldn't be fair - to either him or his intended audience. Musically his songs range from catchy pop melodies featuring his synthesizer work, like "King of the Crap" and "Greener Acres", to the sad and angry jazz/blues saxophone and trumpets of "Criticize the States", to the rocking guitar on the feel-good "Americhosis", the stripped down guitar/voice folk protest of "I've Been Tortured by the U.S.A.", the dark, ominous vision in "Do It Again", to the funky piano/synthesizer on "Poison Uh-mare-ick-can Style", to the metaphorical contrabassoon dominating "There's a Hole in Uncle Sam's Arm".

And all of his songs are filled to the brim with his unique sense of humor. No one will deny that he has more than his fair share of wit.

Lyrically, The Man with No Name is capable of criticizing his country in ways that would make a Madison Avenue advertising executive envious of his ability. And the information he presents come from reputable sources, such as: "Harper's Magazine", The American Association for the Advancement of Science, The American Medical Association, Noam Chomsky, and ex-C.I.A. agent Philip Agee.

With his common sense point of view, he manages to paint a much clearer picture of why the U.S.A. is still falling far short of being a country where everyone is treated fairly and have the same chances as everyone else. At the same time, he manages to keep himself, and the listener, quite amused. And his wit is truly incisive - he'll be able to convince you of his point of view with it.

Who wouldn't like a songwriter that can charmingly list so many specific things so absurdly wrong about U.S. government policy in "King of the Crap", and do it as laid back as the original Roger Miller tune. And then, on "Greener Acres", try and convince you that the President of the United States was really a character from an old TV show?

And after the first four songs have taken hold of you, the rest of the album will give you a good idea of what can happen to you if you've exercised your constitutional right of "free" speech, and criticized the U.S.A. too well.


WARNING: This artist does want to remind you, however, that this album contains some swear words, on "Criticize the States", and at the very end of "I've Been Tortured by the U.S.A.".


A biographical note: The Man with No Name prefers to consider himself an entirely fictional creation, with any resemblance to other persons, places, or things being entirely coincidental.