★★★★★
Fred LeBlanc gazes across the House of Blues dance floor at an audience of his peers. LeBlanc and Cowboy Mouth partner Paul Sanchez are performing an acoustic duet set as part of OffBeat's Best of the Beat Awards, and LeBlanc has just opened with an unsettlingly earnest rendition of "Over the Rainbow" that has the audience members shifting uneasily on their feet. A man of lesser ambition might have cleared the room with such a performance, but LeBlanc has achieved his objective...
- www.offbeat.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
Sometimes you've just got to be there. The Name of the Band is Cowboy Mouth is a DVD of the band at the Roxy in Los Angeles, and it documents the love affair Cowboy Mouth has with its fans. When Fred says scream, they scream. When he says, "Gimme rhythm," they give him rhythm. When he shouts, "Are you with me?!" they are. Onstage, he exudes the joy of living and the audience gets it, framed in songs that simple and effectively catchy...
- www.offbeat.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
If the energy of Cowboy Mouth's live shows could be bottled up, it would knock Prozac off the shelves. They're not so much rock and rollthough they definitely rockas they are a pack of traveling street preachers with instruments, spreading the gospel that is the glorious gift of life. Lead singer and drummer Fred LeBlanc is like Jimmy Swaggart on amphetamines, relentlessly whipping the audience into a frothy sea of the sweatiest, happiest, and hoarsest people on the planet. If you can spea...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-21
★★★★★
Having been a band for more than 15 years, Cowboy Mouth have endured a lot: personnel changes; label switches; the fickle nature of pop music trends; the disappointment of getting signed to a major label, only to be let go for failing to meet illogical sales goals. This isn't to mention the sheer stress and labor that goes into maintaining a band; band members, after all, are like family members, and anybody who has worked with family knows that it's a delicate situation at best...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-21
★★★★★
Having been a band for more than 15 years, Cowboy Mouth have endured a lot: personnel changes; label switches; the fickle nature of pop music trends; the disappointment of getting signed to a major label, only to be let go for failing to meet illogical sales goals. This isn't to mention the sheer stress and labor that goes into maintaining a band; band members, after all, are like family members, and anybody who has worked with family knows that it's a delicate situation at best...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-21
★★★★★
The indie and mainstream scenes won't have anything to do with them anymore, but the scrappy Cowboy Mouth seems more at ease than ever with their place in world. The satisfying Uh-Oh is the band's ninth release and first since the one-two punch of being dropped by a major label and the departure of bassist Rob Savoy. The trippy and electronica-colored cover of "Tomorrow Never Knows" that opens the album is promising enough, but the Mouth really turns it on for the self-penned tunes that follow...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Cowboy Mouth just wasn't made for these times, but they're inextricably part of them. They are very much a product of the late '90s, dabbling in lightly funky beats, loud post-grunge guitars, soulful funk, rap-like alliteration, postmodern jokes, and loose-limbed jams, but their spirit seems to be from another era, when groups toured for months and years on end...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
This is passionate, professional rock from a tight quartet whose members seem to enjoy playing their all-original material en masse. You wouldn't know from their sound that they're from New Orleans. The first track leads off like Omar and the Howlers from Texas. While most of the songs here are smoking hot, "Maggie Don't Two-Step" is a waste of time for this talented band.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
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