Robert Hazard’s songwriting craftsmanship was cemented worldwide when he penned the eternal pop anthem, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun.” In an audacious return to his Americana roots, Robert unleashes the storyteller inside on his latest album, the critically acclaimed THE SEVENTH LAKE, his T-Bone Wolk-produced collection of haunting, intimate and revealing songs about life, love and relationships. Compared by critics to the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Steve Earle, John Mellencamp John Hiatt and Tom Petty, Robert has been praised by Sing Out!, Paste, Philadelphia Inquirer, Newark Star-Ledger, Baltimore Sun, Syracuse Post-Standard, Asbury Park Press, Harrisburg Patriot-News and beyond for his latest effort and engagingly relaxed yet appealingly intense live shows. He has opened recently for Chris Smither, Jonatha Brooke, Patty Loveless, Steve Forbert, Hall & Oates and Todd Rundgren and co-headlined with Gary Bennett of BR5-49. Robert has appeared at the Philadelphia Folk Festival, Bridgeton (NJ) Folk Festival and Bethlehem (PA) Musikfest; and has organized and hosted a major benefit concert for New Jersey flood victims. “The Seventh Lake” has received radio airplay at a number of Triple A and folk outlets around the country, including Philadelphia’s award-winning Triple A station WXPN, and he is back in the studio working on the much-anticipated followup, produced by four-time Grammy nominee Skip Drinkwater. He also has made several recent TV performances: Your Morning on CN8 (three times), seen in more than 7 million East Coast homes; NBC10’s 10! Show (three times) and CBS 3, both in Philadelphia; the Fox 45/Baltimore Morning News, and Fox “Good Day Philadelphia.”

"He has grown into his own skin with songwriting more personal and singing more natural than ever before. ... Robert Hazard has found a new powerful voice in the songs and performances on these two new albums."
- Sing Out!

“At times, he sounds like Scarecrow-era Mellencamp, tapping a wide range of folk and roots styles to spin his yarns.”
– Philadelphia Inquirer

“The Seventh Lake is a perfectly paced, perfectly pitched tour of Americana.” – Allentown Morning Call

“Reflective charmers like ‘Everybody’s Talkin’,’ ‘Route 666’ and ‘Whole Lot of Water’ make a case that he’s doing some of his best work.” – Wilmington News Journal

“Hazard’s new music establishes him as a poetic, sometimes autobiographical songwriter and a soulful singer. His music still rocks at times, but his blues and country influences are more obvious.” – Newark Star-Ledger

“A convincingly gritty acoustic singer/strummer.” – Philadelphia Daily News

“(The Seventh Lake) is full of literate, moving roots rock.” – Asbury Park Press

“Hazard draws comparisons to Springsteen in an acoustic setting, a stripped-down John Hiatt or a roots rocker like Jay Farrar of Son Volt. … A sensitive lyricist with a gift for affecting vocals in a stripped-down setting.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal

“He sounds like a less political but no less edgy Steve Earle.” - Trentonian

“The songs evoke … Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska. The Seventh Lake ... broaches similar subject matter, too, addressing ordinary people with broken hearts and broken lives.”
– Princeton Packet

“Robert Hazard has loads of fun.” – Syracuse Post-Standard

“Darn good.” – Philadelphia City Paper

“(Robert Hazard is) responsible for some of the most heartfelt, inspired, acoustic-tinged music you'll find out there. … The Seventh Lake is full of the gritty, roots-rock that's been time tested by people like Springsteen and Mellencamp.” – NEPAtoday.com

“The Seventh Lake is a collection of 11 tunes that are so emotionally charged, they may send a chill up your spine.” – Advance Newspapers

“Robert Hazard … put on the sleeper hit of the night (at Bridgeton Folk Festival), with a set of songs reminiscent of Bob Dylan or Tom Petty.” – Bridgeton News

“The Seventh Lake showcases his numerous abilities as a folk and roots rock songwriter, as well as his versatility as a musician.” – Citizen’s Voice