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Philadelphia City Paper
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| "About two years ago, Philly-based singer-songwriter Phil Roy, feeling fed up with the music business, got "way off the road."
His words.
Roy's monthly I'm Not Leaving the House "tour" has had the affable musician — and amateur gourmet cook — whipping up four-course meals and giving hourlong concerts for devoted fans in his home. What started out as a mouth-to-mouth gathering among friends quickly became a waiting-list-only event." |
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Businessweek
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| "I thought it would be hard to decide which artist to spotlight in my first BusinessWeek column. But all I had to do was turn to my home stereo, where I've been playing Phil Roy's new CD The Great Longing virtually nonstop for a month." |
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New York Times
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| "The music of Phil Roy, a sadly under-recognized songwriter who toiled in Los Angeles for two decades before deciding to record and perform his own work, accomplishes a delicate emotional surgery that countless troubadours have tried but few have been able to carry off. In the most direct language and without irony, the frizzy-haired, bearded composer, who today lives outside of Philadelphia..." |
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New York Times
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| "Phil Roy, a singer and songwriter, obtained two bookings about the same time last autumn. One, his New Year's Eve performance, was set in the basement-level community hall of an apartment building in West New York, N.J., north of Weehawken. The other takes place tomorrow almost directly across the Hudson River, where he will be the featured performer for Lincoln Center's American Songbook series, in the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse." |
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Philadelphia Inquirer
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| "For a singer-songwriter, life on the road is not all limousines and four-star hotels with haute cuisine room service. Even for a successful singer-songwriter, beingon the road often means driving yourself around, schlepping your own gear, and eating greasy meals at highway rest stops." |
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Philadelphia City Paper
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| "There wasn't one specific thing that led up to Phil Roy's "I'm Not Leaving the House" tour, there were plenty: a bitter battle with his record label, a collapsing marriage, frustration at having to sell himself just to land gigs. Heck, Roy says that seeing Springsteen's memorable (and pricey) solo acoustic show even played a hand in it." |
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