★★★★★
Stampede still sums up Donna the Buffalo. A quarter century on, the cult herd that put the "Cajun" in upstate New York continues stomping up zydeco frenzies six ways from Sunday. Never untethered in the studio, tenth LP
- www.austinchronicle.com
2014-04-10
★★★★★
Sugar Hill With 2008's critically acclaimed album, Silverlined, reaching the Top 10 on the Americana charts, Donna The Buffalo's enthusiastic fans--lovingly called The Herd--quickly began hungering for their next release. Now, half a decade later, the roots music syndicate make good on that promise with an exceptional follow-up poetically titled, Tonight, Tomorrow and Yesterday...
- www.relix.com
2013-06-28
★★★★★
Sugar Hill Records Tonight, Tomorrow and Yesterday - Donna The Buffalo's tenth studio album - is a fine example of a band continuing to evolve while maintaining a sound and vibe that they basically nailed from the very beginning. If you're already familiar with Donna The Buffalo's music, the only thing you need to know is Tonight, Tomorrow and Yesterday is business as usual, with multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Tara Nevins and guitarist/vocalist Jeb Puryear at the core - which is a good thing...
- www.jambands.com
2013-06-21
★★★★★
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- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-17
★★★★★
F.GIFor their seventh studio album, Silverlined, veteran roots-rock act Donna the Buffalo don't stray too far from their trademark hybrid of folk, reggae, Cajun, zydeco, rock and country...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
If a famed touring band makes a studio album in the forest, does anybody really notice? Upstate New York jam-folk veterans Donna the Buffalo invite such gnomic rhetorical questions. Any approach trajectory to this band tends to come along the road-warrior channel...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-21
★★★★★
There are a lot of bands like Donna the Buffalo out there in America. Cranking up miles on the odometer, appearing at folk festivals hither and yon, over almost a decade of a half Donna the Buffalo have built up a solid repertoire of songs and a fervent fan following ("The Herd")sorta like Phish, but not at the stadium-rock level. The six-member band from Trumansburg, New York, probably deserves a whole lot more recognition than they've had. On Positive Friction, they offer up more of the fee...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-21
★★★★★
If a famed touring band makes a studio album in the forest, does anybody really notice? Upstate New York jam-folk veterans Donna the Buffalo invite such gnomic rhetorical questions. Any approach trajectory to this band tends to come along the road-warrior channel...
- www.popmatters.com
2008-09-16