A delicate guitar pattern, a distant wordless choir, a deep, underlining organ, a string section that swoops in and out, and a hushed vocal melody seemingly sung an inch from the ear: “Stand back waiting on a dream that will never return. I sit back thinking of ideas that’ll never be heard." On a String, Reno troubadour Tyler Stafford’s first (full-length studio) album, is a work of remarkable intimacy. The production is mostly Spartan and tasteful, but even when there’s a vocal choir and string section, Stafford’s voice and guitar are in the forefront, his voice comfortable, quiet, conversational, enunciating every lyric with precision, the cleanly picked guitar lines equally eloquent. But intimacy is the defining feature—the music might echo out as though in a concert hall, but at its core it never leaves the living room." -Bradley Bynum for the Reno News and Review