★★★★★
Ballads may prevail numerically over rockers on this set, but, given the consistent high caliber of the former here, that's hardly a drawback. And the one-time guitar wunderkind here adorns both approaches with suitably icy-hot vocals and, not surprisingly, bestows striking, song-appropriate axe work on each track. "Beautifully Broken" and the title track exemplify the ballad bounty present and "Piece Of The Sky" is a bona fide show stealer...
- rootsmusicreport.com
2012-09-20
★★★★★
There is no shortage of ladies with soulful voices or guitarists with a great feel for Blues but very few of the former also play guitar and almost no-one of the tender years of Joanne Shaw Taylor can do either to this standard. By any standards this is a superb album and as a follow up to her debut it realises the talent that she began to show in 2002. That she has picked up an award as female Blues singer of the year is amply evidenced here...
- www.music-news.com
2010-11-22