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“Bill Kelly has the voice and pen of a true artist, with a great sense of melody”
Larry Campbell

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Latest reviews for Bread on the Waters

"Bill Kelly has crafted a landscape full of characters that feel like they live next door. It's a beautiful record of great songs that won't let go."
Buddy Miller

"Not only is Seraphima a great song, it’s a great record and real Americana music."
Robert K Oermann

"Yelling at You in My Head is the most basic and original idea anybody has had in a decade in the songwriting world."
John Beebe

“Bill Kelly has the voice and pen of a true artist, with a great sense of melody”
Larry Campbell

“Well produced, heartfelt songs”
John Leventhal

"...the songs simply sparkle and radiate with warmth, and the performances and arrangements are the epitome of tastefulness...”
John Hinshelwood

"Beautiful country album with a great sense of connection. This album puts me in a happy, thoughtful and contented frame of mind every time I give it a listen. It's pure, great, heartfelt music and that's what makes it so appealing, so touching, so right. This man is a great songwriter and a fine musician. His music flows from start to finish. The opening song, Daddy Wouldn't Know, is a blessed tune and shapes the album. The songs that follow live up to what's been set in motion. There is a sense of flowing, of continuous thought floating through the songs and the music and that makes it a really easy listen. However, it has so much going on under the surface it's impossible to dismiss this as background filler. I'm more than a little confused by this album- it speaks on so many levels and I'd love to know just why. The whole album is somehow great at providing a real connection between the artist and the audience and though I can't pinpoint it's greatness in roots or thought or substance, Bread on the Waters is an album I have fallen in love with!"
LB, Maverick Magazine, UK

"Kelly is a New Yorker who teamed up earlier with/as The House of Cards, Folkfoot and bluegrass folk group Spare Parts. Bread On The Waters is his first secure steps on the solo path. These steps surely enough can be viewed upon as being giant. Kelly sounds as if he never walked differently, like he has ever been there. Trusted like Lyle Lovett (sometimes, when he is being lighthearted), Bruce Springsteen (if the music rocks), Tom Petty (if it dries [sic]), Jackson Browne (most of the time, but this is a version with more twang) and Darden Smith (Ah! the twang). He ranges himself alongside of those men who negligently touch upon the essence, who can tear apart a tiny little story without using any gunpowder. Kelly is an all round troubadour. He might not be hard core but he definitely is the last of the all-night, do right, stand beneath your window 'til daylight. Bread On The Waters is hard evidence for that."
Patrick Donders, Hanx.net, Holland