"First up Melbourne singer/songwriter Paul Hicks with his second Album Food for the Journey (Sound Vault). The country styling’s of Hicks’ first album Kettle of Fish have been expanded on but not abandoned. Instead of fiddle and steel guitar there are trumpets dense guitar sounds and yes, strings! Comparisons made earlier to DYLAN, SPRINGSTEEN and Australian PAUL KELLY were heady stuff for a young artist but a drift to folk meets rock stance is entirely a naturally one. Paul and his cohorts (taken from a wide circle of rock) have fashioned an album of some lyrical intospection,with a predilection to personal statement that as a bi-product pointing to more universal concerns. That is a tricky root that the artist navigates with ablomb. The album also sounds good. Producer/percussionist MARK STANLEY has a handle on big sounds. This is really a new beginning for Paul, almost a first album and songs such as Give Me Love First, Carpenter’s Son and Buffalo River Road may help to propel him to the upper echelon of Aussie personal songwriters (a mighty small and a select bunch)-only time will tell but in the meantime, as his life-affirming song carnival has it, enjoy the ride"
-Keith Glass, Capital News magazine, 2007.
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