"This is a wonderful record! Thanks for the great music and songwriting."
- Wendy Wham, KUNC Radio

"Sweet Mystery is a killer (and I mean killer) album with lyrics that resonate and melodies that haunt."
- Kevin Jones

"Russ plays a fine acoustic guitar accompanied by a voice as good as the great original music and lyrics he writes."
- Joe Kissell

Kiva Records owner Russ Hopkins has released a new collection of his songs on CD. Sweet Mystery features Hopkins performing an introspective mix of acoustic guitar based songs with tasty musical backing. Recorded in spare moments and in different spaces over the course of the last six years, Hopkins plays most of the instruments on this record with help from co-producer Jerry Palmer and musical guests Joe Kissell, Steve Eulberg, Beth Mosko, Andrea French, Pamela Robinson, Dave Zekman and Chuck Biddlecom.