Praise for “Million Star Hotel”

"Sprawling and audacious, almost dazzlingly ambitious, Jeffrey Dean
Foster’s Million Star Hotel is the kind of record with depth, soul,
and a kind of spiritual quality that they just don’t make anymore.
Stunningly beautiful…undeniably great."
-Luke Torn, Pop Culture Press

"Million Star Hotel is absolutely not to be overlooked."
- Fred Mills
HARP Magazine

"If you spend time chasing one album this year make it "Million Star Hotel": an hour of magic from North Carolina's Jeffrey Dean Foster." Yet every second of this remarkable album cries out to be listened to, experienced, and cherished. Everything here is always doing its part; it's down to the careful listener to find and explore that everything. For these songs will never let that listener down and never stale. Always they'll inspire, and always they'll reward."
-Nick West, Bucketfull of Brains (UK) Fall 2007

Legendary dj Vin Scelsa picks Million Star Hotel in his top ten discoveries for 2006

"Wow, this album for me is such a big discovery, I like it so much."
- Bob Harris BBC 2 Radio DJ. BBC 2 DJ
Bob Harris played "Long Gone Sailor" from Jeffrey Dean Foster's
"Million Star Hotel" on his Saturday night show.
Bob is one of the UK's most influential and respected djs.

"Avoiding the shortcuts and vanity pit falls that plague many self-released
projects, Jeffrey Dean Foster delivers a strong personal statement with
wide-ranging appeal on Million Star Hotel. The foundation is classic rock -
a musical antiquity for some - but like Jeff Tweedy, Foster knows how to
sweep out the cobwebs and rattle-test the walls."
- Jerry Withrow
NO DEPRESSION

"The album is elegantly stoked by co-producers Mitch Easter
and Brian Landrum to spotlight Foster's honey-sweet high tenor,
his classic-rock-leaning arrangement skills and his feel for rescuing
poetic truths from longing, heartbreak and reflection."
- Fred Mills
Magnet Magazine

"Foster occupies some pretty rarified air. While effortlessly conjuring
pleasant aural images of Neil Young, the Byrds, Brian Wilson,
and Chris Bell, Foster, over the course of a few listenings, admirably
establishes his own identity as a literate songwriter for whom
hooks fly off his fingertips like a magician tossing
glitter over a room full of awe-struck kids."
- Rick Koster
The Day, New London, Conn.

"Merging classic rock, roots music and pop experimentation with
Foster’s reliably brilliant songwriting, the album recalls the likes of
Big Star, Wilco, Neil Young and even the Flaming Lips.
Worth your time. Foster does not disappoint. ”
- Andy Turner
Pop Culture Press

"Million Star Hotel" is easily one of the best albums ever to come out
of the fertile North Carolina music scene, and it deserves the kind of
exposure that the work of home-state peers such as Ryan Adams, Ben Folds
and Tift Merritt has enjoyed.”
- Parke Puterbaugh
Go Triad/Greensboro News and Record

(out of four)
"More than any album this year, ‘Million Star Hotel’ offers a far-reaching
expression of the greatness of rock 'n' roll. This is as close to perfection
as rock 'n' roll should be allowed to come. It's the real deal."
- Ed Bumgardner
Winston-Salem Journal

"He combines Big Star's "Holocaust"and Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush" moodiness with the catchy-rock smarts of Tom Petty. There's a lush feeling typically not associated with roots rock. Sparklehorsey moments--most notably the distorto vocals of the raunched-up "Little Priest"--creep in, but it's worth noting that Foster has been dealing in found sounds and other atmospherics since Mark Linkous was little more than a Sparklepony. "
- Rick Cornell
The Independent Weekly

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The Pinetops “Above Ground and Vertical”

"Above Ground And Vertical" is as lean and graceful as a shortstop, but the twin guitars
are ready to rear up when called upon, as in "Underneath Your Wheels" and the marvelous, True Believers-ish "Jesus Spoke To Me." But as good as the album sounds, Foster's lyrics remain the more striking feature as he creates a place where doomed policemen wear their guns too low, angels circle like vultures, and "bad luck needs a good luck charm."
- Rick Cornell, No Depression

“Jeffrey Dean Foster has produced what comes damned
close to being the best complete album in the genre.”
- Kent Benjamin, Pop Culture Press

“The Pinetops could become an underground classic... a mindblowing debut.”
- Musicemissions.com

"Richly melodic, ornate pop rock"
- magnet

“the leaves turn upside down” 7-song EP

Jeffrey Dean Foster is a roots-rock troubadour with psych-rock
sympathies -- a guy with Steve Forbert, Tom Petty, Marc Bolan and Ian Hunter
all peacefully coexisting in his head and heart.”
- The Independent

“Odd clips from radio evangelists, and brief, moody studio instrumental
segues give the disc an Andy-Warhol-goes-techno/acoustic-in-the-predawn-hours
feel that is quite ingenious.”
- Rockzilla

"’The Leaves Turn Upside Down’ is a fascinating concept and one that, in
Foster's hands, works like a charm. It's a work that is at once primitive
as a field recording; punk-like in attitude, and wholly futuristic.”
- Winston-Salem Journal