Lyrics of love, loss, longing in Mark Sebastian’s new ‘A Trick of the Light’
artsmeme| June 11, 2024

From time to time, singer/songwriter Mark Sebastian’s well-meaning comperes have cautioned him about the lyrical content of some of his songs. Sebastian’s literate and sophisticated songs explore the romantic battleground between men and women… [read more]

Mark Sebastian – The Real Story (Black Sheep Global Recordings)
Elmore | July 21, 2014

Although the cover art evokes Raymond Chandler’s 1940s Los Angeles, this album was created in New York City, and the music recalls the best of what we were listening to in the 1960s, with gritty blues numbers (“Indigent Woman”) side by side with sweet love songs… [read more]

Mark Sebastian Tells The Real Story
No Depression | May 2, 2014

He is a kindred spirit. He’s seen the land from coast to coast. Eastern waters and the western, Pacific shores are familiar to him. So is the music, from the soul songs of Detroit, to the urban blues of New York City.The easy pop texture of his brother’s legendary band… [read more]

CD REVIEW: Mark Sebastian, The Real Story
Popdose | April 15, 2014

Fifty years ago, the tenements, bars and coffee houses of Greenwich Village were the centre of a hip, bohemian society of beatniks and folkniks. That society has long dispersed, most of its landmarks erased by the onslaught of chain stores and fast food outlets… [read more]

In the Summer, in the City, the Heat Changes a Tune
The New York Times | August 6, 2006

Woodstock, N.Y. HOT town. Summer in the city. True 40 years back when John Sebastian, then with the famous-long-ago Lovin’ Spoonful, wrote those words and his group recorded one of those songs that takes on a life far beyond what anyone imagined. [read more]