★★★★★
Sammy Kershaw has been making albums for over 2 decades now with multiple albums including a handful of collections released by his old label Mercury Nashville. Now recording for his own record label, Sammy has chosen -- like many veteran artists do -- to revisit (re-record) 9 hits from his career, most of them amongst the biggest ones from his catalog...
- www.roughstock.com
2013-11-28
★★★★★
One of country music's most-gifted vocalists, Sammy Kershaw sounds completely engaged on A Sammy Klaus Christmas, something that a lot of lesser-talented singers should pay attention to. Yes, he's singing holiday classics, for the most part, but that doesn't mean he shouldn't be treating the songs with the respect they deserve...
- www.roughstock.com
2012-11-15
★★★★★
Since his arrival on the national country music scene in the 1990s, Sammy Kershaw has certainly enjoyed a good career. While it has been filled with many peaks and valleys, it seems that Kershaw's career is heading back up the mountain again as he releases his 9th studio album (he also has a holiday and four best-of collections in his catalog) Better Than I Used To Be...
- roughstock.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Newcomer SammyKershaw grew up in southern Louisiana, but unlike his third cousin,famed Cajun fiddler Doug Kershaw, he spent more time listening toGeorge Jones than to the furtive secrets of the bayou. On hisimpressive debut, Don't Go Near the Water, Kershaw works the Joneshomage overtime ? sucking in his words and biting them off at the endof a phrase in the master's style ? and even recording Jones' upbeathonky-tonk weeper "What Am I Worth...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Imitating George Jones
down to the last vocal dip has led to two gold albums for
Louisiana honky-tonker Sammy Kershaw. This time on Feelin' Good Train, though, he often breaks into a
husky style all his own, especially on the homesick ballad
''Southbound'' and the pounding ''Better Call a Preacher.'' However, a
duet with the Possum himself proves that while Kershaw is making
strides toward originality, he isn't totally over his Jones jones.
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Onhis sixth try, Sammy Kershaw finally makes an album on which hedigs into his emotions instead of just winking at them. He findsthe heart of such songs as the good-time corker "Little BittyCrack in Her Heart" and the tight-lipped weeper of a title tune, Politics, Religion and Her.But then he throws it all away with tired covers of ChuckBerry's "Memphis, Tennessee" and Sammy Johns' dreaded "ChevyVan." C+
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
After about a decade, Sammy Kershaw parted ways with Mercury Nashville after his 1999 album Maybe Not Tonight, resurfacing four years later on Audium/Koch with I Want My Money Back. A switch to an independent at this stage of the game pretty much takes Kershaw out of the running for the charts, but he thanks God in the liner notes "for giving me another chance to do what I love to do so much," so chances are, his eyes aren't on the charts anyway...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
"National Working Woman's Holiday" was a perfect example of Sammy Kershaw's strengths and weaknesses: few people, if any, had sung about the psychological toll the economic reality of the two-income family took on Southern men whose mothers had probably stayed at home to raise them...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27