This is - for the most part - a quiet record. A man, a guitar, some lovingly etched songs as much about his native Northen Ohio as the passages and hallways of his own heart. A facile finger-picking, he crewels his melodies in a way that casts webs, sparkling with single note diamonds, and propelled by columns of chords. And for anyone who lived or learned anywhere in the Buckeye State from the mod-70s on this live from the Kent Stages recording is a wonderful bit of utterly sweet nostalgia.

     But for the people who've never heard Alex Bevan, this is a kaleidexope of heroic tales of regular people (the college grad who chases silver buckles in “Rodeo Rider,” the NYC street saxman “Jazzbo”), pure love that we all want (“Carey Come Smiling,” “Grand River Lullabye”), yearning that pulls us (“Silver Wings,” the benediction for local folkie pioneer John Bassette “Welcome Home”) and mirth that comes with a wink and a giggle (“Streamline,” the sardonic “Skinny Little Boy (From Cleveland, Ohio)”). It is how songs move at the ends of one's fingers that can cast our own wings to the sky - and this is one unseen troubadour who knows how to help the more eartbound amongst us fly.

Skinny Pickles (Gourmet Bread and Butter)                                         
<>now available at Bendelwski's Meat Market in North Madison
Skinny Pickles are now available at K & K Portage Market
 at 3364 Warren Road on the West Side of Cleveland!!!!
(and yes.... Hamburger Dill Slices coming soon!)


Watch YouTube Video of Alex Bevan, David Krauss and Ron Jarvis performing Skinny at Cain Park.                                      
Click here to see how Skinny I was in 1991!


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