About This:
'Angels, Lovers and Fools' is Boston-based singer-songwriter Craig Sonnenfeld's fourth release. Craig is an artist whose songs have been played on over 100 radio stations in the United States and abroad. This work continues to showcase Craig's thoughtful but emotional songwriting, clear finger picking style (he learned from legends Philadelphia Jerry Ricks and Paul Rishell) and middle baritone voice that songwriter Rob Siegel describes as one which 'you hear and think, wow, I could listen to him all day!'. Many of the songs are bittersweet works of love and loss, but there are also some blues numbers mixed in such as the rocking 'Two Timin' Woman' and 'Ain't Gonna Cut It', both accompanied on blues harp by virtuoso Annie Raines. Other songs feature Valerie Thompson on cello, Steve Sadler on bass and mandolin and Paul Shaheen on keyboards. Other songs such as 'Box of Broken Glass' and 'Every Little Lie' display a haunting country influence. Produced by Steve Friedman and tastefully accompanied on cello, bass, mandolin, and harmonica by some crack Boston musicians (Valerie Thompson on cello, Steve Sadler on bass and mandolin and Paul Shaheen on keyboards), the album can go from a heartbreaking number of a lost friend in 'The Ones You Left Behind' to a raucous comic description of modern work and family life in the hilarious 'Aggravation'. Songwriter Bob Franke has called Craig 'a songwriter of intellect and heart'. That description really hits the mark on this new work of ten original and entertaining songs.