Donovan Woods

"Woods has never felt the need to justify his style or influences. He was quite happy picking out heartfelt melodies on his acoustic and letting his words and gruff but surprisingly tender voice stand front and center. While that doesn’t change on his new record (honestly, the pain and heartache he offers up on the simple line, "now my roommate he bought a coffee press and that nearly drove me to tears, see it’s the first thing she’d touch in the mornings of those private school years" on the beautiful, surging "Phone" is worth more to me than the most emotionally charged fiction), Woods has pushed forward with bigger arrangements. There is something magical about a man with a guitar who doesn’t need tricks to make you keep listening. Donovan Woods has that magic." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Herohill Music Blog