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Record Collector (magazine) (p.102) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "It's a hypnotic and constantly spellbinding music, especially in the hands of such exemplars of the genre as Buddy Moss, Big Joe Williams, Sleepy John Estes, Fred McDowell and Furry Lewis..."0.9577082
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Living Blues (7-8/02, p.51) - "...Davis really hits his stride, taking material from the likes of Mississippi Fred McDowell, Sleepy John Estes, and Big Bill Broonzy and twisting it like musical taffy, pulling and stretching the songs until they fit his eclectic postmodern style..."Mojo (Publisher) (7/02, p.108) - "...You are in the hands of a musician fascinated by older music but too independent to replictae it..."0.7980902
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Q (8/95, p.145) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...remains the most significant album of the early '60s American white blues boom....The instrumental interplay between Koerner and Ray's acoustic guitars and Glover's harmonica is never less than engrossing and often exhilarating..."Down Beat (p.73) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "In concert segments and interviews, the three musicians reveal themselves to be free spirits hip to the zeitgeist of the time."Down Beat (1/96, p.49) - 4.5 Stars - Good/Very Good - "...[Koerner and Ray] are gifted acoustic guitarists, creating an imposing lattice of embroidered scales and bends, and they bring personality and emotional honesty to their singing. Tony `Little Son' Glover informs his vocal and harmonica playing with a rare intelligence....fresh and vibrant music..."Living Blues (5-6/99, p.103) - "...The depth of country blues knowledge, feeling, and expression displayed by these young white Northerners is startling, surpassing much of the work of today's acoustic revivalists..."Sing Out! (8-10/95, p.139) - "...[Koerner, Ray & Glover] are remarkable in the instrumental and vocal skills they brought to a traditional music form that was not of their own culture, but which they had already made their own..."Mojo (Publisher) (p.67) - "[They] injected punk-style vim and humour into covering heroes Leadbelly and Sleepy John Estes, while firing up their own spirited homages."0.3990451
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Living Blues (11/03, pp.94-5) - "...Deliciously old-timey and rhythmically persuasive..."0.3067044
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Rolling Stone (3/23/95, p.123) - 3.5 Stars - Very Good - "...documents the complex cross-pollination that routinely occurred among Memphis blues artists. This in-breeding gave the city a strong but shifting blues sound, rather than one that could be clearly distinguished from the Delta style or East Coast approaches..."Living Blues (9-10/94, pp.89-90) - "...an excellent introduction to the diverse music played by pre-war Memphis blues artists..."0.2628895
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Rolling Stone (8/31/00, pp.69-73) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Lavish....Smith was a master of the segue...[and] had a prophet's ear..."Entertainment Weekly (5/26/00, p.75) - "...Depression-era and reflects the old folkways' collapse. From Robert Johnson to the Carter Family to a pre-bluegrass Bill Monroe - Smith's ear for greatness was uncanny." - Rating: AQ (9/00, p.116) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...This final volume is based on his 'content analysis' of the post-1932 Depression period....all the songs are just plain bizarre and have recurring or interwoven themes....it's the CD gift of the season for those in the know."The Wire (1/01, p.34) - Included in Wire's "50 Records Of The Year" [2000].The Wire (5/00, p.58) - "...Decades of crackle and fuzz have become inextricable parts of these songs, ghost channels that seem to calling directly over time, a little ruptured window onto another world. We can literally hear the sound of a world slowly retreating into the murk of history..."CMJ (6/12/00, p.25) - "...Features 28 long-lost ballads and social music recorded between 1928 and 1940....sequenced as Smith originally intended..."No Depression (5-6/00, pp.100-1) - "...Smith's careful construction compels the listener to experience the album as a whole....this formidable work...is likely to be remembered as one of 2000's finest archival recordings."Mojo (Publisher) (8/00, p.94) - "...More lives have been touched by the music in these volumes than almost any other source. Dig in and dig it."0.2190746
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Entertainment Weekly (p.69) - "[O]ld-time country music, early blues, and gospel....The recordings -- of varying brilliance -- are grail-like rarities."Living Blues (p.76) - "House was the greatest of all the 'deep' Delta singers, and this was his greatest recording session. The guitar work is crisp, with his usual unerring rhythmic control, and his voice is magnificent."No Depression (p.100) - "There are fetching country blues tracks.....It's all put together with enthusiasm and tongue-in-cheek ribbing of the collecting bug."Mojo (Publisher) (p.110) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] glittering parade of mountain stringbands and sanctified preachers, fiddle and harmonica tunes, banjo songs and guitar blues..."0.1752597
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Uncut (p.120) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[T]here are too many moments of transcendence on this double CD to mention them all....More a masterclass than a concert."Mojo (Publisher) (p.130) - 4 stars out of 5 - "Disc two's cuts are intense, cavernous and beautiful."0.1752597
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Living Blues (11/03, p.90) - "...It takes in some of the rawest, weirdest, and most ethereal blues songs that he ever captured on tape....Phillips made it no secret that the blues was his first and deepest love..."0.1314448
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Alternative Press (4/01, p.76) - 3 out of 5 - "...Their repetition is magical...weaving simple, childlike melodies that slowly grow into full-blown opuses..."Magnet (p.100) - "THE SLEEPY STRANGE is as good as it gets, finding the perfect balance between mellow atmospherics and earthy post-rock."CMJ (2/12/01, p.22) - "...Draws the listener in with its sunny tones and earthy touches..."No Depression (7-8/01, pp.126-7) - "...Stupefyingly beautiful....intense, inward-looking music, with subliminal repetition....sublimely dreamlike sonic pleasures..."Paste (magazine) (p.65) - "Steel wizard John Neff takes a solo and your blood pressure drops by a dozen points. You breathe deep amid the pastoral landscape and futuristic ambient-country instrumentals."14.03143
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Spin (p.124) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he singer/songwriter now effortlessly laces soulfully picked guitar with wiseguy one-liners..."Uncut (p.106) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Delivered in a warm growl, Case has much to say about the plight of his Union..."Mojo (Publisher) (p.104) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Sparse, acoustic folk whose subject matter -- the underdog, hobos and homelessness -- evokes Woody Guthrie."13.60356
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Alternative Press (8/93, p.65) - "...after all their love-torn terror, Catherine show they're really worth their weight in vintage amps... [SLEEPY]'s a very well-crafted swindle..."9.803516
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Mojo (Publisher) (p.94) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[E]lements of everyone from Neil Young to Royal Trux soak into ever-shifting songs, alternating between monster riffs and sweet moments, which have their own, distinctly California atmosphere."Clash (magazine) - "FEVER is an album of absolute beauty, a chaotic blend of grungy maniacal freak-out contrasting perfectly with the blissful serenity captured on songs like 'Acid Love'."Uncut (magazine) (p.98) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "This Santa Cruz sextet come on like a handy intro to the cosmic end of '70s rock."6.924821
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