Album Of The Week

"From the opening guitar riff and Jeff Pevar’s melodic slide guitar, Steve Yanek’s title track from the new album, 'Long Overdue', immediately puts the listener on familiar ground. Reminiscent of the Lowell George era Little Feat and Jackson Browne’s rockier side, this song has the upbeat hopefulness of love finally coming together after a long pursuit. This song also features an amazing piano part by the late T Lavitz, in what could be one of the last studio performances of Dixie Dregs renowned keyboardist."

- Kenneth Bremer / Blue Desert -

"Steve Yanek has a very warm vocal tone and his songs look at personal feelings and frustrations, both in relationships and the world outside his window, on what proves to be an impressively strong album."

- Paul McGee / Lonesome Higway -

"On Steve Yanek's 'Long Overdue' the production is strong, his vocals shine and from the opening track, the title track, he has a brand of country rock that sees your foot tapping along from the off. Melodically, this is a stand out collection as those choruses that will get stuck in your head. This is my favourite album from Steve and as he promises there’s more songs waiting in the wings, I’m excited to see him progress with this style!"

- Zoe Hodges / Maverick Magazine -

"Steve Yanek's 'Long Overdue' is a great americana, heartland, pop, rock album in the typical American tradition of Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne, John Mellencamp and such. Steve has a good raspy voice and the songs are actually quite melodic, sometimes uptempo rocking, and at other times in a melodic rocking ballad direction. There is a nice mixture going on here, and fans of typical American singer songwriter, heartland, pop, rock need to check out this great album!"

- Gabor Kleinbloesem / Strutterzine -

Steve has been working on 2 album projects simultaneously over the past 2 years and they're both coming into full focus at this point. The 1st project is called ’Long Overdue’," and was released in late July. Great sounding record!”

- Philip Verhaege / Keys & Chords -

"We have previously already compared the voice and the music of American singer songwriter Steve Yanek with those of his own musical idols Jackson Browne and James Taylor. With the legendary multi instrumentalist Jeff Pevar at the helm as producer, Steve Yanek is now releasing his newest record, ‘Long Overdue’, containing 10 self penned tracks that do one by one confirm his incredible talent as vocalist and composer.“

- Valére Sampermans / Rootstime -