"Still Standing Still"
Kevin Connolly
Release Date: 4/19/2008


Take a listen to Kevin Connolly's new recording "Still Standing Still" and find out why critics have long championed this American singer/songwriter. With his eigth CD release, Kevin returns to a big warm sound featuring a wide range of musical influences and some of Boston's best musicians. Connolly has a way of using blues, folk, country and Americana influences to create a sound that is distinctly his own. The lyrics tell a story and the band rips it up on cuts like "Writing A Book" and "Walking Out In The Woods." Ballads go deep and talk about emptiness in the form of "Holes" and ask questions as in "House On A Hill." Songs from the perspective of a soldier at war ("Can't Feel The Rain") and songs about watching life fly by in the suburbs("Here We Are") make this record broad in scope and emotion.It's been said before but this is one record that will make you move and think! Thirteen original songs produced by Kevin, Ducky Carlisle and Chris Rival. Photos taken by Pulitzer prize winner Stan Grossfeld. Anchored by Kevin's regular band it also features cameos by Tom West (The Mystix) and Michael Dinallo (Radio Kings, White Owls).


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New York Times …"Connolly’s music cuts a fairly wide swath through pop music culture, touching on everything from blues to folk to country to rock — and often a combination of all four"
WUMB......"(Still Standing Still) Outstanding.....quickly becoming a WUMB favourite!" Brian Quinn/Music Directpr
Dirty Linen Magazine- The songs reflect his grounding in an array of roots music styles...earthy, rhythmic collections of dark-tinged musings, rich ballads. The gravelly, weatherbeaten voice of Connolly gives life to vivid vignettes sculpted from painstaking realism. His live performances are intense, the focused flow of music and energy interspersed with dry, laconic humor.
Patriot Ledger..."a treasure worth discovering"
Yummy List/Holly Gleason..."A rugged voice that creates a reality where you can live honestly, dream reasonably and believe in the songs"
Boston Magazine ... "Best of Boston"
Album Network ... "A songwriter's songwriter, an uncompromising performer and an original personality"
CMJ ... "a startlingly rewarding artist"
Boston Phoenix ... "Literary, serious, reflective, soulful, eclectic, blues-driven... the crowd needed two encores, a testimony to Connolly's ability to spin his energy into the room." 


Barnes Newberry/Highway 61 Revisited WUMB-Kevin Connolly has been diligently working his craft for many years and may have finally hit his stride with his latest cd, Still Standing Still. Backed by some of Boston's finest players, it is a fully-realized, mature work where the lyrics and the music resonate with the listener and the songs each stand, not "still," but strong! From the infectious Bumpy Road to the rockin' Walking Out In The Woods, Kevin has shown what hard work can accomplish! Catch him soon, folks, he's the real deal!


Leight Montville (author)"So I’m singing in the car again with Kevin Connolly. He’s inside the dashboard, doing his part from an aging CD player, taking care of the guitar and the melody and the words and, OK, just about everything else on ‘Mystery Water,’ his latest recorded effort. I’m doing, uh, background vocals. Harmonies, that’s what I’m doing. I’m singing about ‘bottom feeders and misdemeanors’ and longshoreman days on Castle Island and fast-talking, out-of-control women and spinning like a pinwheel in an idiot wind and exploding cigarettes and monkey bars and I’m screaming, OK, ‘do me.’ Whatever that means. I even have a little air guitar solo and body language thing that I add on certain tunes. I could be singing with Springsteen or Sinatra, you know, singing with anyone living or dead who ever sang a song in all of music history. I’m singing with Kevin – not Caruso or Eddie Vedder or Joey Ramone – because his songs on this CD are new and different and just terrific. Check us out, Kevin and me, appearing in a high-speed lane near you"

Patriot Ledger... from Top Sounds of 2005…a stellar acoustic jewel of an album… It is no stretch to view this album as a New Englander’s companion piece to ‘‘Devils and Dust,’’ with similar depth and passion, and no punches pulled…riveting. (Jay Miller/Patriot Ledger)

The Noise …”It’s an acoustic folkie-type offering with great production and incredible songs. By incredible, I mean that the songs have remarkable musical variety and lyrical depth. And they’re catchy, too. Connolly’s songs sound vaguely Tom Waits-ish, vaguely Celtic, vaguely like the last Johnny Cash recording, and lyrically, vaguely Springsteen-ish, as if the Boss had grown up on the South Shore instead of the Jersey Shore. Although the songs are sonically spare, with only vocals, acoustic guitars, and minimal percussion, Kevin Connolly exhibits a range of moods, in a way that, say, Picasso’s pencil drawings might. As a testament to Connolly’s songwriting expertise, I can imagine his songs translating well to any style…(Robin Umbley)

Holly Gleason/The Yummy List  "A rugged voice that at times suggests the Springsteen of Greetings From Asbury Park, Boston-based Connolly sits low in the groove and offers up postcards and polaroids from a world that is faithful in the hard spots, committed where it'd be just as easy to walk on and thrilled by the smallest things. It's not necessarily easy or convenient, but it creates a reality where you can live honestly, dream reasonably and believe in the songs."
New York Times ..."Connolly’s music cuts a fairly wide swath through pop music culture, touching on everything from blues to folk to country to rock — and often a combination of all four" 

WMNF Tampa- "Kevin's music has been a welcome staple of WMNF's programming for years and years. The man can tell stories and write melodies that get under your skin." -- Cameron Dilley/ DJ


Patriot Ledger..."a treasure worth discovering"
Boston Magazine ... "Best of Boston"
Album Network ... "A songwriter's songwriter, an uncompromising performer and an original personality"
CMJ ... "a startlingly rewarding artist"
Boston Phoenix ... "Literary, serious, reflective, soulful, eclectic, blues-driven, and occasionally goofy ... the crowd needed two encores, a testimony to Connolly's ability to spin his energy into the room."
Constantine Report ... "Connolly writes great songs, and this album serves notice that he will be around for a while."
The Boston Globe ... "A packed house, and a concert that exceeded expectations ... Connolly was a delight."
The Wenatchee (WA) World ... "I was completely inspired that a person could be that good at something, let alone that good of a performer of 20 terrific songs about the dream of living."
KPFK (Los Angeles) ... "A wonderful singer, an imaginative write,r a rare treat to experience."
WGBH-FM (Boston) ... "one of New England's best young singer/songwriters. He pushes his stories beyond conventional standards " La Republicca (Italian newspaper) ... "one of the most interesting voices coming out of the American scene today."
Santa Barbara News-Press ... "penetrating imagery that immediately demanded attention ... it's hard to imagine how Connolly has avoided more widespread acclaim and bigger record deals."
Monterey County Herald ... "roots-rock muscle and assured songwriting, humorous but not self-consciously so, deeply emotional without being maudlin ... surely one of the best shows of the year."
Entertainment Times ... "a seductive, thought-provoking compilation of tunes that speak to the universality of the small-town American experience."