★★★★★
Swamp-rock doesn't come much more swampy or rocky than This River. JJ Grey's sixth studio album with Mofro is named for the St. John's River near Grey's childhood home (Jacksonville, Florida) and stewed in a pressure cooker stocked by Tony Joe White, Stax Records, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Chess Records and other classic country blues and funk...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2013-10-12
★★★★★
Spinning This River, Floridian songsmith JJ Grey's seventh long-player, it's clear that this is someone whose tunes are reflective of a vast and varied record collection. From the deft, soulful touches of Al Green to the twanging rockabilly of The Band, Grey is evidently indebted to a variety of impressive influences...
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-06-20
★★★★★
A quick look at the Wikipedia page for JJ Grey & Mofro tells us they're not your usual band, with genres listed as soul, funk, r'n'b, blues and southern rock, and even that doesn't really tell the whole story. Florida based frontman JJ Grey writes all the tracks on album seven, This River, as well as demonstrating his skills on the guitar and harmonica - and he sings as if his life depends on it...
- music.thedigitalfix.com
2013-06-17
★★★★★
Florida blues/soul/funk ringleader JJ Grey has been described as "an American treasure"--okay, I described him that way myself, in my review of his 2011 live album/DVD release Brighter Days, but I'm not his only fan out there. His particular blend of Southern-flavored musical gumbo has earned him an army of devotees nationwide, as I experienced when seeing him perform live in Massachusetts in April...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-06-14
★★★★★
Lucky for us, JJ Grey & Mofro can't decide on what sort of band they are. The band's eighth release, This River, starts off with country sass on "Your Lady, She's Shady," a bit of bayou rap that sets the album on its groove. Following it up is "Somebody Else," a horn-infused rocker that brings to mind those great Memphis soul bands...
- www.ink19.com
2013-05-09
★★★★★
JJ Grey is one of the brightest new stars to emerge in American soul/blues in the past decade, and this disc will further cement that reputation. This is the eighth album in 12 years from one hard-working mofo. As with earlier releases, is a seamless mix of Southern soul, rock, funk and blues. Grey's ace six-piece band, Mofro, include two horn players, and they add full and funky musical meat to the bones of Grey's well-crafted songs and convincingly soulful vocals...
- exclaim.ca
2013-06-25
★★★★★
Alligator A dozen years after his striking debut, a classic slab of funky Florida-fried swamp rock, singer/guitarist JJ Grey is out with his sixth disc of new Mofro tunes, as rootsy and tantalizing as ever. Joined by a newly retooled band, with Grey's distinctive drawl sitting in a tight rhythm-section pocket accented by Anthony Farrell's organ and keys along with saxophone and trumpet, he references regional touchstones again...
- www.relix.com
2013-04-18
★★★★★
Mofro guitarist Andrew Trube, also of Austin funkateers Greyhounds, struggles to describe the band's sound on the video portion of this live DVD/CD. A documentary brimming with riveting concert footage recorded in Atlanta, the video portion of Brighter Days is the best calling card yet for this group's clear-eyed Southern rock and horn-laden soul...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2012-04-23
★★★★★
Jacksonville's JJ Grey has been delivering his brand of funky, countrified blues-rock to true-believing audiences ever since his debut album Blackwater was unleashed in 2007. Grey's voice is soulful, scratchy and impassioned, as capable of crooning a tender ballad as unleashing a fiery torrent worthy of a hard rock band in its prime...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-02-02
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