★★★★★
The old childhood taunt goes it takes one to know one. But no one would tease Paul Thorn because he would whoop your ass. He's one of America's best singer songwriters, and now he has put out an album of other people's songs. I guess that considering his talent, Thorn should know a good song when he hears it. His own works are filled with saints, sinners and the strange whose lives cannot be viewed through the prism of the sacred or the profane...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-05-24
★★★★★
Angels and demons, dark and light, prosperity and poverty—rock music has revelled so long in these dichotomies that they've become cliché, but Tupelo, Miss.-raised singer/songwriter Paul Thorn has lived them all...
- www.pastemagazine.com
2010-06-25
★★★★★
In listening to Paul Thorn's fourth album, and the direct follow-up to 2002's iconoclastic wonder Mission Temple Fire Works Stand, one cannot help but think that he's spent some time listening to other people's records as well. Are You With Me is a collection of self-penned songs about love; for, against, happy, sad, grief-stricken and bewildered. Nonetheless, it feels like a singer's record...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Paul Thorn's second album Ain't Love Strange features more of the singer/songwriter's quirky, confessional, roots-based songs, including "Liberace & Fabio," "Where Was I," "Burn down the Trailer Park," "Help Me out, Hook Me Up," and "That's All I Know Right Now." While it may not have the immediate impact of his debut Hammer & Nail, Ain't Love Strange is another worthwhile effort from Thorn.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Paul Thorn's second studio full-length and his debut for Virgin's Back Porch Records is a wild, wooly, roots-drenched voyage into the dark, conflicted, yearning heart of America. A Tupelo, MS, native and the son of a Church of God minister, Thorn knows the boundaries -- where they can be stretched and where the paradoxes with no answers lie...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
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