REVIEW Snippets
This column doesn’t often make room for EPs, but the latest from the Ned Hill Band is good enough to merit an exception...The music has a 1960s vibe, and so do some of the lyrics. In the midtempo title cut, Hill meets Jesus, who pulls out a joint and asks for a light, and in the hard-rocking “Drive,” he sings, “The echoes of 1964 play in my head.” Elsewhere in that same song, though, he’s planted firmly in the present. “What a world,” he sings, “Say, what’d I miss? Twenty-four seven, you can’t take a piss without some breaking news of some craziness comin’ down on you.” Adds Hill: “I just can’t breathe, it’s all too much.” American Cosmic Revival’ by Christian Parker

The music is toe tapping roots rock of the most head nodding, enjoyable kind. “Drive” laments the daily bombardment of bad news, backsliding in the areas of moral justice, and pressures that we find ourselves fully surrounded in, and then taps into our most basic desire to flee, and just “drive.” Melissa Clarke-Americana Highways
 

Ned Hill consistently sings with a creative rock ‘n’ roll application with warm overtones & if nothing else, he’s always a persuasive vocalist. The entire showcase is elaborate, yet it’s not without its well-integrated originality that distinguishes the whole band nicely. John Apice-Americana Highways

“Saw Jesus at the Park” finds Hill mixing humor with a little frustration and disbelief. In the song, Jesus is spotted walking his dog in the park and, when asked how he is doing, responds by laughing, pulling out a joint and asking for a light. The scene is tongue-in-cheek, but beneath the humor is Hill’s look at a world that can often feel increasingly difficult to make sense of.
The Grateful Web

“Hill and his seven bandmates put his insightful and head-nodding lyrics to melody with a potent punch….Nice” Fred Kraus-Minor 7th

Ned Hill is one of the many hidden talents within the inexhaustible artistic genre known as Americana. The EP, titled *Saw Jesus at the Park* after one of its standout tracks—a folk-rock ballad featuring a lovely melody and refined guitar work by (Dave) Coleman—contains six songs that reinforce the hallmarks of Hill’s music: sincere, straightforward roots-rock….*Saw Jesus at the Park* offers a fine collection of songs that deserved to be part of a full-length album.
Giovanni Botti-Buscadero (Italy)