2004

Glitterhouse - Hobo Dream Review, May 2004

Up to every trick between Austin and Nashville, Markus Rill's back with his fourth album. On his debut, he blurred the line between Unterfranken (the region I live in) and the West Texas Plains, in the meantime it has vanished completely. One has to accept that there may very well be a guy in every corner of the world who could make the juke joints and honkytonks in Texas or Tennessee sizzle, thus making the term "authenticity" negligible. On top of that, Markus has realized one of his dreams recording in Nashville with Duane Jarvis (production & guitars) who assembled a bunch of friends with a breathtaking track record to make one hell of a studio band. This band delivers ten lushly rootsrocking numbers; the three remaining tracks - the most countrified of the bunch - were recorded in Würzburg with folk/country singer Karen Poston. "Hobo Dream" is Rill's masterpiece, utterly convincing top to bottom musically, lyrically (Rill's way ahead of the average American writer) and in design.