Terry Klein

• Good Luck Take Care [Terry Klein Music, 2022] A-
• Leave the Light On [self-released, 2023] *

Consumer Guide Reviews:

Good Luck Take Care [Terry Klein Music, 2022]
Pragmatic g-g-b-d propels Bostonite-turned-Austinite's wide-ranging lyrics over the top when they provide the locomotion that the road-dogging opener and its child-rearing follow-up may not even need. Sadly, the metaphorical slow ones about salt and a goldfinch that follow close by need more than that. But then come five story songs that aren't really fast enough but clever or felt enough as well. Clever: "Such a Town." Felt: "Salinas"/"The Woman Who Was Lost in the Flood," which I bet he intended as a sequence. A-

Leave the Light On [self-released, 2023]
"The grief is like a millstone/Grinding in my gut/It's all right when it's working/But it keeps on getting stuck" ("A Quarter, Two Quarters, and a Dime," "Oh Melissa") *