"Somewhere Between Heaven and Earth is a miracle. That's a big, scary word, but this is big, sometimes scary music. Calling it a miracle is not hype or exaggeration. It simply describes what Cindy Bullens does on this album inspired by the life and death of her 11-year-old daughter, Jessie Bullens-Crewe [from Hodgkin's disease].

Part of the miracle is that Cindy draws so deeply and intensely and relentlessly from that shattering experience, without letting up for one verse of one song. Every image and metaphor here is tailored to convey the experience of Jessie's life and death, or the experience of trying to live on after her, as some mothers inconceivably must. The first miracle of Somewhere Between Heaven and Earth is that it captures all that in only ten songs.

But the other part of the miracle-the more important part, I bet Jessie would say --is how Cindy has chosen to live, and to write and to sing. Against every set of odds, Somewhere Between Heaven and Earth, suffused as it is with grief and pain, is not morbid or depressing. It's exhilarating and triumphant.

It's the essence of rock'n'roll, conveying the same message that has come out of other great voices for fifty years: It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive."

---from the liner notes by rock critic Dave Marsh

Buy the CD directly on Cindy's website: www.cindybullens.com While you're there, make a donation to The Jessie Bullens-Crewe Foundation, benefiting pediatric cancer research, support for programs that enhance the difficult lives of kids with cancer and their families; environmental concerns, and youth education.