Clear.  Clean.  Imaginary.  These words will be imbedded in your mind once you listen to the sounds of Ty Oliver. “Healed Through Time” is an instrumental album of melodic riffs that, at times, will send you off to Never-Never land, dreaming good thoughts. “So Softly” rocks ala Steve Vai with a driving force at the high point of the song.

“See the Light” has the feel of The Police back in the day with the electric guitar work. The guitar sounds by Oliver are great, but I do not see it making as much of an impact without vocals. We have done quite a few reviews and interviews with different guitarists, and even their view is that there will never be an instrumental that will be a blockbuster seller again since the beginning era of Joe Satriani.

Ty Oliver is a fine guitarist and I liked the music a lot, but without that vocal element, I don’t see a big impact with his music. That does not mean he will not be successful; he possibly could. It is just doubtful that Oliver will reach that superstar status that I feel he could obtain if he had that added vocal element.