★★★★★
Bismeaux When you have a voice as big as Carolyn Wonderland's, the temptation to over-sing is always there. There are moments on Peace Meal --the second album that the singing, songwriting Texas guitarist has made with Asleep at the Wheel's Ray Benson ( Larry Campbell and the Monkees' Michael Nesmith also contributed to the production this time)--when she succumbs...
- www.relix.com
2011-12-13
★★★★★
If the first track off Carolyn Wonderland's Peace Meal sounds unexpectedly countrified, listen up: Wonderland just tapped into rare Janis Joplin track "What Good Can Drinkin' Do" and stamped it as her own. That may be the only concession outside her traditionally volatile blues, and Peace Meal serves it on a platter steaming with soulful strut...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2011-10-03
★★★★★
Ms Wonderland is special. She has a voice that can do most anything in the Blues or rock canon and she plays guitar with delicacy and almost illegal raunchiness as well as writing songs and interpreting some classics. She comes from Austin Texas, a special place and her band is augmented by some of Austin's best itinerant musicians. So why isn't she a superstar? Sadly, talent and ability are overshadowed by FASHION...
- www.music-news.com
2010-11-02
★★★★★
If Carolyn Wonderland's previous Bloodless Revolution promised she'd land on your doorstep one day, then Miss Understood is ringing the doorbell. Tossing Wonderland's prodigious talents into the mix with Asleep at the Wheel's Ray Benson as producer, Miss Understood is a mighty and joyous performance. As a youngster in 1980s Houston, Wonderlands' Imperial Monkeys won acclaim for her rock-injected blues, but Miss Understood announces her as a triple threat for singing, playing, and writing...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
On her seventh album, Texas blues singer/guitarist Carolyn Wonderland teams with Ray Benson, leader of Asleep at the Wheel, who serves as her producer, co-writer on two songs, backup guitarist, and the head of her record label, Bismeaux Productions...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Bursting With Flavor is a marked improvement over Carolyn Wonderland's clunky debut. The album's sound is punchy, crisp, and unencumbered by excess fiddling -- as it should be when the band in question lives and dies by its gritty live shows. It opens with the punchy Stones knock-off "Last Living Stranger" before moving on to the less derivative "Stuck in the Road" and "Loose Ends," two regret-fueled laments doused in the salty moisture of night sweats and desperate tears...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
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