Reviews
“Four stars.” - Rolling Stone
“Four stars.” - Pulse
“Four stars.” - Q magazine
“Four stars.” - Rolling Stone “Four stars.” - Pulse “Four stars.” - Q magazine
[ What Folks are Saying ]– Amazon.com Review
“The sense of humor featured from the group’s earliest days is intact, as ‘Spencer Rifle’ will attest – do not listen to the latter while drinking, as choking may result.”
[ What Folks are Saying ]– Downtown Magazine
“A wild and wonderful melange of American traditional folk music ripped up into the multidecibel range on electric guitar, bass and drums, and delivered with a passion that should be heard more often.”
[ What Folks are Saying ]“They refuse to see the difference between the mournful ballads of 19th-century Appalachia and the rawest punk rock, and their genre-shattering but ultimately natural-sounding marriage of the two.”
– Valley Advocate
[ What Folks are Saying ]– CMJ
“Cordelia's Dad may well be the first band suitable for both the alternative rock crowd and the congregation
of a snake-handling church.”
[ What Folks are Saying ]– Slug Magazine
“Transcends categorization by experimenting with a collage of eclectic instruments and vocal stylings.”
[ What Folks are Saying ]“American music rarely comes more elemental, more haunted than this.”
– Q Magazine
[ What Folks are Saying ]– NPR All Things Considered
“Revitalizes these songs of love and death with passion, taste, and talent.”
[ What Folks are Saying ]– Seven Days, Burlington, VT
“Attracts the Appalachian and the Alternative crowd with audacious performances.”
[ What Folks are Saying ]“music of rare intensity that ought to appeal to anyone prepared to give it half a chance.”