From English magazine GetRhythm

DAVID BAERWALD HERE COMES THE NEW FOLK UNDERGROUND LOST HIGHWAY

The problem with making big statements like the title here is that you have to back it up with the goods. I don’t know much about Baerwald apart from his work on Sheryl Crow’s ‘Tuesday Night Music Club’ but there’s plenty of blurb in the biog to back up Lost Highway’s belief. Even if there wasn’t, the evidence is blindingly obvious in the album itself. Although the songs hark back to the roots of country music, rock ‘n’ roll, summer of love, (‘Bozo Weirdo Wacko Creep’ is very Steve Miller-ish), the whole nine yards of American music, ‘Here Comes The New Folk Underground’ reminds me of World Party’s ‘Goodbye Jumbo’ (especially ‘Love No.29’), another album that successfully looked over its shoulder for inspiration. David Baerwald is one hell of a songwriter and sounds capable of anything. ‘Here’ Comes...’ takes us on a journey through his musical influences in much the same way as Ryan Adams did with ‘Gold’, only this is better. There’s real talent here and we could be listening to someone who could become one of the great American songwriters. You get the feeling there’s a Randy Newman waiting to leap out. CJ