"This masterpiece will haunt listeners."

"This is my kind of blueser. Out of Canada, Big Dave McLeanhas a gritty, world travelled voice and delivers a tune like he’s sitting next to you in his truck after having picked you up hitch-hiking."

"This CD is a fine set of Delta and country blues. It goes back to the past, and brings in some younger new songs too. If you like this type of blues, run and grab this CD."

"This latest release should make U.S. blues fans sit up and take notice to his powerful voice, songwriting skills and prowess with a National steel guitar."

"Winnipeg, Canada’s blues legend Big Dave McLean visits Nashville to record with master multi-instrumentalist and producer, Steve Dawson, for Faded But Not Gone."

"Nothing has faded about McLean’s music. In fact, the album’s sonic warmth only adds greater colour as the bluesman brings to the fore his gritty vocals, taste for delta and country blues and early Chicago styles."

"A Juno and Western Canadian Music Award-winner, McLean channeled the recent loss of his mother and brother into a vital, deeply heartfelt expression of loss and recovery on the songs from Faded but Not Gone, making it his most personal album to date."

"Big Dave McLean has crafted a disc of straight shooting blues that are aimed more at getting through another day than lighting up the next party."

"This is a great album by a Canadian bluesman who is long overdue to make some major inroads into the American blues scene."