I found this review on Hollywood Today, check it out!!
With a voice somewhere between Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits, and his singular compositional flair, Poag’s 12 well-crafted songs span the vagaries, the haunts, the promises and the lessons of life itself. Poag’s musical strength lies in his ability to tell a story or describe a feeling that compels you to listen to his lyrics but it’s his melody that transports you and draws you in. Poag moves easily from reggae to blues, jazz to rock. He never repeats and always surprises.
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I really dig this album, found a interesting review of the album. It is from  Examiner.com:
It may be Poag's first album, but Circling Back makes a strong case for the notion that maybe it should be mandatory for all musicians to go out and experience another slice of life before coming back to observe it in song. It's a strong, self-assured debut that displays an enormous grasp of the craft and history of songwriting that is well outside the range of most singer/songwriters, equally informed by rock, folk, jazz, standards and maybe even a bit of country.

Poag is a musical Everyman, inhabiting each song and imbuing each one with just enough of a different slant to keep the album fresh, but with enough of a producer's sense to tie all of the songs together in one consistent collection.
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I just found this album from a great review on I Like Jazz and it is really fantastic. I think the review says it all: 'He sings something like Bob Dylan, plays guitar something like Mark Knopfler, but doesn't fall into easy mimicry of either. Credit a long journey to get here, as Vincent Poag took some time away from his dream of becoming a singer-songwriter for the straight life and starting a family. Now older, wiser and possessing a complexity often lacking in such things, Poag has completed a long-awaited recording in Circling Back (Danal) that seeks to frame up his own life lessons. The music mirrors that depth, moving beyond the expected coffee-house acoustics to include orchestral flourishes from the cello, violin and French horn…'
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Found this review on Jazz Weekly... Check it out==> Vincent Poag has a voice that’s sort of a mix between early Bob Dylan and Jim Croce; gravelly and smoky, but musical enough to keep your attention. He’s also got a gift with the pen that mixes the sardonic humor of a Randy Newman with the vulnerability of a Cat Stevens.
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