Ghost Notes, the new album from Preacher Boy, is a milestone release from a relentlessly pioneering artist who continues to both honor and extend the Americana and country blues traditions that inspire him. 

Known for his rough-edged voice, vividly poetic storytelling lyrics, and masterful fingerpicking and slide guitar work, Preacher Boy conjures up a sound that has earned him comparisons to everyone from Howlin' Wolf and Bob Dylan to Tom Waits and Dr. John. 

That Devil Music bestowed an early A+ on the release, declaring that "Preacher Boy has never been more compelling or intriguing than he is on Ghost Notes." 

Preacher Boy’s career began with his debut on Blind Pig Records, an album that helped give birth to "alternative blues" as a genre that also included artists ranging from Chris Whitley and Alvin Youngblood Hart to The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and G. Love. Faster and Louder has called him "the godfather of alt blues," while The San Francisco Guardian tagged him as the “Charlie Musselwhite for the Lollapalooza Generation.”

After Gutters and Pews, his second Blind Pig title, Preacher Boy relocated to Europe, where his subsequent three releases were written, recorded, and released. His music during this period was described by Melody Maker as "Country blues that marry Nick Cave, Robert Johnson, Woody Guthrie, and Tom Waits," while MOJO declared that "Preacher Boy is a songwriter of startling originality."  

Preacher Boy moved to Brooklyn on the heels of co-writing and recording with Eagle-Eye Cherry and Rick Rubin at New York's fabled Magic Shop. While in New York, he recorded his first solo acoustic album, Demanding to be Next, of which Sing Out said: "Accompanied solely by his keening, propulsive National and Martin guitar playing, Preacher Boy compulsively unwinds a series of often startling, narcotic tales, that prove image-rich and packed with an aura of sweeping drama."  

After a break to focus on writing poetry (courtesy of a grant to live and write in Jack Kerouac's former house), Preacher Boy returned to music with a vengeance, releasing three new albums of original material in as many years. Sputnik Music wrote that his new songs “abound with musical tales of desperation and loneliness that would do a Springsteen or a Neil Young proud. The man knows how to write a song and deliver it with gut-punch impact.”

Now, with Ghost Notes, Preacher Boy has delivered a musical summary statement, bringing decades of experience and maturity to bear upon an album of 18 original songs that should rightly be considered his masterpiece.