"At the end of each year, Turn It Up focuses on the best of the best from Chicago's 

independent music scene. 

Al Rose, "My First Posthumous Release" (Monkey Holding Peach Records)

Perhaps in a different era, Rose would’ve been a fixture on the North Side

folk circuit alongside John Prine and Steve Goodman. As it is, his sharply

detailed, often wickedly witty songs easily shift among genre boundaries

with luminously orchestrated arrangements. He’s been doing it, and doing

it well, for two decades." -Greg Kot, Chicago Tribune