★★★★★
Always one of country's most respected voices, Suzy Bogguss lends a female perspective to the songs of Merle Haggard on Lucky, which features 12 outstanding covers of the Hag's finest. But if you're thinking that Suzy's folkie-centric style is a mismatch for Merle's working-class material, think again. Suzy is absolutely effective on "The Bottle Let Me Down," with an interpretation that's totally believable...
- www.countryweekly.com
2014-03-13
★★★★★
Suzy BoggussLucky (Loyal Dutchess) As if an album of Merle Haggard covers didn't present a brazen enough endeavor, Suzy Bogguss' first LP in three years ups the ante by tackling some of the outlaw legend's most beloved hits. Bogguss handles the tunes with a distinct and endearing reverence, while also offering a feminine spin to Haggard's rough-hewn machismo...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2014-03-13
★★★★★
Those who have followed country singer Suzy Bogguss from the beginning know her fondness for the songs of Merle Haggard. The leadoff track from her 1989 debut album, and her first radio hit, was a heartfelt cover of Hag's "Somewhere Between." So, it's not such a surprise that Bogguss returns to Haggard's rich catalog for this dozen song set...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2014-02-11
★★★★★
A lot of casual music lovers might think Suzy Bogguss is just country. There's some of that, but that's mainly because there's a deep well of good stories in the country songs.Don't sell her short. Suzy swings. Suzy emotes. Suzy has soul.Sweet Danger is all about love, but it's mostly about leaving. Heck, there's even a widow's song here for those who've had someone leave this way.The album sometimes finds her somewhere between Carole King and Joni Mitchell...
- www.ink19.com
2009-07-20
★★★★★
Like Janie Fricke, Suzy
Bogguss has an exquisitely pure soprano but little knowledge of how
to wrap it around a lyric to communicate shades of emotion.
Songwriter John Hiatt, who contributes both Voices in the Wind's quirky ''Drive South''
and ''Lovin' a Hurricane,'' is simply beyond her.
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Suzy Bogguss' debut, Somewhere Between, was perfect testimony thatcountry albums could aim their sights toward commercial radio andstill concern themselves with matters of integrity. The songs on thefollow-up, Moment of Truth, aren't quite as gritty, but Bogguss remains a revelation, asinger of remarkable clarity, poise, and intonation, with theadditional gift of sure emotional directness...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
No longer content, as in the old days, to be simply a cowboy's sweetheart, country's fairer sex now exercises its right to explore a woman's full range of roles, as new albums attest. The veteran here is Suzzy Bogguss, whose third album Aces, challenges the conceit of the stereotypical passive country female, willing to put up with all manner of cantankerous behavior to hold on to a man...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Jazz and country music are half-siblings. Both are uniquely American forms. Both derive from folk music associated with people on the cultural fringes (jazz from African-Americans and country from poor whites). Yet they seem separated by a vast gulf. Certainly, one would have to make a pretty strong case that what passes for country music these days (Garth Brooks, for example) has anything whatever to do with jazz (as embodied by, say, Joe Lovano)...
- www.jazzreview.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Track Listing: Straighten Up And Fly Right; My Dream Is You; Comes Love; Sweetheart; Jumping Into Spring; DoNothing Personnel: Suzy Bogguss Style: Straightahead/Mainstream Read more reviews of Swing Suzy Bogguss has had a very successful career in the contemporary country arena in the 1980s and '90s. Her debut recording for Liberty Records, Somewhere In Between, was critically well received and contains songs by Nashville and Austin royalty Rodney Crowell, Guy Clark, and Merle Haggard...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2009-06-05
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