On SOMEONE TO LOVE, Steve Jordan boldly goes in some directions way edgier than any tatooed coffee house ode yodeler. The opening cut, "April" is about the deeply meaningful, but firmly platonic love between an older man,a singer, and much younger woman, a regular at his gigs : this man can "walk the line".
He's not through: he goes to "Denver", for other loves to be shared, and no one ends up in bed there either. Take THAT, all you snivelers who can't get over your last several "relationships!" Jordan has an excellent almost too-pretty voice, that he balances with blunt, bluesy backing by Orville Johnson. Other tunes on the album sing the praises of a life well examined, and the virtues of tending a home, a yard and a family, but Jordan never lets things get sappy. He's got a good, chooglin' trucker's song, "Rain Fallin' Down", that works fine but which may even more of a future is some gravelly country outfit turns the Tele's up to 11. Another paean to blue collars, "Building Bridges", needs nothing extra. All in all, Steve Jordan is a lot like Gordon Lightfoot, gentle without being wimpy, with an inner toughness that we used to call character.
Tom Petersen - Victory Review (Jun 1, 2006)