Reviews

“Mark, thank you for letting us record your beautiful song (If You Leave Me).” Becky Schlegel

“On Nuages – Django’s oft-recorded classic – Sam [Miltich] and [Mark] Kreitzer have rearranged the tune as a guitar duet. Paring down and enhancing the simple melody with chord-melody line, they’ve brought a freshness to a glorious song that’s sadly become almost a cliché.” Vintage Guitar, Jan. 2008

“Mark’s latest CD (Pages) is a real gem.” Jon Garon, www.mfmguitars.com

Theater review: North Star’s “Brel” is alive, in reasonably good health: “Mark Kreitzer’s guitar finds inventive ways to affect the sound.” Graydon Royce, Star Tribune, December 18, 2004

“The addition a couple of years ago of Madison transplant Mark Kreitzer gave [the Middle Spunk Creek Boys] a shot in the collective arm. Kreitzer gives The Middle Spunk Creek Boys a new sound and feel. That his entry into Spunkdom would shake the clubhouse rafters is inevitable, since he’s a prolific songwriter and plays about three thousand instruments.” Adam Granger, Inside Bluegrass, December 2000, vol. 26, No. 12

“Mark Kreitzer’s Little Willie’s Return and He Died Alone are topical compositions that could have been snatched right from the headlines of today’s newspapers.” Les McIntyre, Bluegrass Unlimited (2000).

“Mark Kreitzer wrote eight of the album’s nine originals. Time and Time Again by Mr. Kreitzer [is] also up tempe. Probably the best way to describe it is to have you think of Michael Nesmith’s What Am I Doin’ Hanging ‘Round but with more of a quirky rhythm to the words . . . There’s No One Else, [is] a slow, pensive number that sounds like the kind of work done by the rock group the Jayhawks. If it were possible to wear out a CD from repeated play, that cut would be in danger.” Bluegrass Unlimited (1999; speaking about the Middle Spunk Creek Boys’ No One Else recording)