Bill Bentley Reviews
“A Passing Train”

It’s a bluebonnet-fact that Austin is a music town, and has been for over 50 years when the word got out there were over a dozen clubs booking bands of all persuasions, apartments were fifty dollars a month and beer was three quarts for a dollar. And peyote buttons were free for the picking two hours away near the Mexico border. The next thing everyone knew was that blues bands could get weekend jobs, there was a new music style called Cosmic Cowboy sweeping the town and another few dozen music rooms were opening up. Austin was born. Stephen Doster is one of the city’s shining artists who proves that Austin found greatness. He is a songwriter of infinite talents, and is willing to stand on his merits and stick to his guns. Doster has made several albums, and on A PASSING TRAIN he has gathered two dozen songs from past sessions and bundled them together in a mind-altering collection. If there has ever been any doubt that this man is one of Austin’s finest artists, A PASSING TRAIN will prove it true. Seven different producers each handle an amalgamation of songs, everyone from Will Sexton, the Pretenders’ James Honeyman-Scott, Jay Aaron Podolnick, Doster himself and others, and the results are unforgettable. The styles swing from unrelenting rock to the kind of songs that break the heart on the first verse. Stephen Doster is someone who will hopefully last forever, creating songs that remind all what it means to be a human with a big heart. Bluebonnet plague passion.

-Bill Bentley “Bentley’s Bandstand” USA