Edmonton-based Rob Heath has previously won first prize in the Calgary Folk Festival’s songwriting contest, the New Folk competition at the prestigious Kerrville Folk Festival, as well as a Canadian Radio Music Award for Songwriter of the Year.
On this, his sixth disc, one of the subjects he tackles is using the idea of actor Christopher Reeves’s real-life struggle with being paralyzed as a metaphor for the human condition in Superman’s Fallen. Such large subjects don’t seem to faze Heath in the slightest and he’s equally at ease using the examples of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Van Gogh, and Chagall in Greatest Master Of All, or life itself in The Key
He follows in the romantic poet tradition of looking at “the great questions” of love and existence, both through his own songs and collaborations with other songwriters. Produced by Jesse Brandon Northy, the disc is another fine addition to a substantial body of work.
- Barry Hammond, Penguin Eggs
Collaboration is The Key for Edmonton Singer Songwriter Rob Heath. Read More
- Roger Levesque, Edmonton Journal
Solid singer-songwriter fare from one of music’s craftsmen. Warm, welcoming, comfortable, familiar even, seldom brash or edgy, plenty going on and a few wow moments that make your heart stop in wonder.
– Maverick Magazine (UK)
