Praise for "Here With You Tonight"

I keep wondering what makes Dave Insley’s Here With You Tonight so much fun to listen to, since it inhabits entirely familiar musical forms without significant innovation. It must be Insley’s resonant & slightly quirky voice, his interesting lyrics, and the quick tempos & sharp backup musicians that spruce up standard chord progressions-notably the steel guitar of Rick Shea, a talented veteran. In other words, its just plain well done. His casually detached singing leaves melodramatic self-indulgence out of the picture. For Insley, life is beautiful and rich more because of pain than despite its disappointments, which we acknowledge and transcend. Zen country music, anyone? David Cantor, SOUNDSTAGE, October, 2006

Insley immediately held my attention not by showboating, but through naturally flowing rhythms and stories of everyday life and loss told in a warm, unhurried and sometimes wry voice of experience.” Nat Hentoff, WALL STREET JOURNAL, October 10th, 2006

In case you were worried, the illegitimate musical love-child of Johnny Cash and Lyle Lovett is alive and well, and off looking for the ruins of Route 66. His name is Dave Insley, and on Here With You Tonight, he's poignant, reverent, and occasionally even funny. Andrew Peterson, UPSTAGE MAGAZINE, Jan 2007

Insley, whose odyssey has included a number of Arizona bands, of which the Trophy Husbands lasted long enough to make a couple albums, seems squarely in the tradition and yet, like so many Arizona artists, a breed noted for their eccentricity, there's something just a little off-center and idiosyncratic about his version. The result is that, while the outstanding God Loves The Working Man , with fabulous lead guitar by Dave Gleason, sounds like an old Merle Haggard original, Insley's confident baritone, assured songwriting and command of the nuances of Real Country, plus a dash of Arizona weirdness, mark him out as a modern master of the style. Call Me Lonesome was a splendid debut, this, also featuring Rick Shea on steel, plus a raft of other excellent musicians whose names I probably should be familiar, is even better. John Conquest, THIRD COAST MUSIC, August, 2006

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