Bruce Madden

"Nurse, where are my meds??? I need tranks...I'm supposed to be hearing Blues but I'm flashing to oh wow, man...cool colors of sound."

-Dr. Blues
Long Island New York Blues Society

Madden's bristling blues fascinate...

West Michigan's Bruce Madden doesn't follow the rules, or at least not the
rules for what passes as normal in modern blues music. And thank goodness
for that.

-John Sinkevics
Grand Rapids Press

A touch here and there of irony, sex and comedy keeps things interesting.

-Sarah Byrne
Recoil Magazine

Who'd have figured that the soft spoken and unfailingly polite Bruce Madden would be transformed into a new millennium version of Jim Morrison when he grabbed a microphone, strapped on his guitar and laid his mouth on his harmonica for this disc?

-Mark Smith
West Michigan Blues Society

...well played harp through a small amp (nice distortion) and sort of talk/vocals. I do like the aggressive attitude and drive. Coffin Bone-regular boogie groove with no changes. Again, attractive tough sounding harp. Interesting spacey guitar toward the end. Christian Deformed Blues-love the guitar distortion. Simple dirty slide. Razor's Edge-Your first slide solo; simple but not bad.

A Dream Unrefined-I like the way you're singing parallel with your guitar line.
Talking With The Angels-distorted harp with a lot of delay but clean vocals. Lyrically, this of course, isn't up our alley but it works on its own terms.

-Bruce Iglauer
President, Alligator Records
Chicago USA

"Your cd is very cool. A "Thinking man's party album!" I like the bluesy, grungy, gritty aspect of the sound... traditional sounding but with a modern edge. It rocks from beginning to end. Good stuff!"

-Miles Corbin,
Guitarist for Aqua Velvets

Bruce Madden "Interesting stuff! The first few tracks have a rough, Fat Possum label sound (that's fine by me!). Tracks 6, 7 and 8 made me stare at the CD player to
see if I was listening to Jim Morrison (!!!) and maybe some outtakes
of recordings by The Doors ! That's interesting in itself because I
went to high school in L.A. in the 1960s when The Doors were one of
the great "local club bands" just before they broke nationally. I
saw them at the Hollywood Bowl in the summer of 1968.

I'm sure a few of these tracks will find their way onto my playlist
soon. Thanks for sending the CD."

-Robert Barclay
"The Juke Joint"
WCMU Public Radio Network
Mount Pleasant, MI

"I dig your Beefheart/Morrison growl. The production brings out the animal
in your voice! I enjoyed the harp on "Coffin Bone (and the) nice ripply effect in the harmonica in "Two Fallen Angels."

-Cynthia Plaster Caster

"We will be airplaying(&)webcasting your "We'll All Be Gone" from your "Talking With The Angels" album. Your music, with a world of it's own, feels raw and very avant garde."

-Chris & Michiko
Yellow Beat FM Radio
Japan

"Bruce Madden, Talking With Angels - it's blues that goes crunch." I've track 11, a dream unrefined into rotation."

-Daedalian Lowry
Asst. Program Director
WLNZ-FM 89.7
Lansing, Michigan

Bruce Madden "Your website (and album) is "Coup de Coeur" on Docteur Blues for one Month."

(Note: Docteur Blues, located in France, placed Talking With The Angels on his website for one month featured as "Coup de Coeur" or roughly translanted: From the Heart.)

Rated: A+

-Docteur Blues, France
http://www.docteurblues.com

"Here is a (soldier) from (the) planet blues-rock. Even if the melodies lack
sometimes a little consistency (and this is not the most important one in
the blues), the entirety of the album wants itself dedicated to dusty rock
drawing inspiration in the roots of blues. (Songs) Still Not Satisfied or UFO Louisiana: a sound to balance in the deep cosmos! To discover absolutely. It's a great pleasure for me to promote your songs on my radio show."

-BALDACCHINO Salvatore
FM Radio, Belgium