“Ghosts Before Breakfast welds the patented density of Morsberger’s allusive lyrics and subject matter to a variety of musical styles both within and between songs. These are songs that will keep listeners humming along as they puzzle over meanings. This is true art, and the real thing is never easy.”
Read the full review.

Watch Morsberger’s in-studio performance and interview, via ABC-TV affiliate WHAS, during a recent tour stop in Louisville:
http://www.whas11.com/video?id=139518153&sec=988818

In-depth article about Ghosts (PDF), by music journalist Thomas Staudter.
Benefit Concert(s) for Rob Morsberger

Praise for Chronicle of a Literal Man

USA TODAY – “SUMPTUOUS” A “MIX OF WIT AND GRIT” – THE PLAYLIST by Elysa Gardner: Listen Up Music Pick!

WBUR, Boston’s NPR News Affilliate, HERE AND NOW program distributed nationwide via PRI (Public Radio International)

Listen to the NPR interview here
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THE BOSTON HERALD – A CD REVIEW By Kevin Convey: the “album is the kind of hyperliterate, pop-inflected singer-songwriter outing that went out of style when Warren Zevon died.” “He can write a hook that could make angels weep.”

BLOGCRITICS – By Jack Goodstein: Music Review: The Chronicle of a Literal Man by Rob Morsberger. “He writes lyrics that will reward the kind of explicative analysis usually accorded to the finest poets.” “Richly original.” His lyrics are dense with allusion, metaphor and creative rhyming.”

Editor’s Pick in THE BOSTON GLOBE: “think “storyteller” with a literary, cinematic, intellectual bent.”

Writer Lee Zimmerman included the CD in the ‘Quick Takes’ section of his INDIE SCENES column, and praised: “…the sharp air of defiance in the title track quickly upends preconceived notions. Morsberger’s literate songs are etched with irony (“Old Jolly Farm”), nostalgia (“Nebraska in Winter”) and recrimination (“Like Eating a Stone,” “Independent Movie”).