The UK’s influential Blues and Soul Magazine says it best:

"Album of the week. One of the most significant new albums of the moment and possibly a collection which will prove to be the most significant of contemporary times, is Andreus' Street Troubadour.

If I told you [this album] has elements of Maxwell, Lenny Kravitz, Jimi Hendrix, D' Angelo, Bob Marley, Marvin Gaye, the Last Poets, and above all, Curtis Mayfield, you'd just about get the picture - it's that good. Listen to the strings on Hustla's Theme, the opening vocal line on Daddy Please or the guitar riff on Bastard Child and you'd swear the clock had been turned back thirty years to the golden age of Mayfield's solo debut. And like the gentle genius, Andreus isn't afraid to tackle the issues that really matter in the ghetto - drugs, prostitution, police corruption, unwanted pregnancies, wife beating, guns, slum housing, hustling, abject poverty, and optimistic dreams of a better place. These are the themes explored here and if nerves are exposed they deserve to be.

Like Mayfield, Andreus' messages are wrapped in delicious melodies, sweet harmonies, swirling strings, wah-wah guitars and driving percussion that demand repeated plays. But, as I said at the top. Curtis isn't the only echo you'll hear here. Throughout there's subtle references to those musicians Andreus holds dear. This is no "stars in your eyes" imitation. Andreus is his own man throughout. Nor is Street Troubadour an exercise in retro, it's an album for the 21st century...one of the strongest debut sets you'll ever hear." -- B.B.