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