★★★★★
There's no musician alive equivalent to Dale Watson. Forty-two songs on three CDs about life as a trucker? Piece of cake. The genre flirted with the pop charts in the Sixties and Seventies, revving up fondly remembered twang tunes including "Six Days on the Road" and "Hello, I'm a Truck," yet Watson comes to the music honestly. His father drove a big rig, so the two logged some miles together during his childhood...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2014-08-14
★★★★★
As much as I like contemporary Country music, it does my heart and soul good to listen to some honest-to-goodness Country music, the kind that you don't have to ever think about what genre it belongs to for there's no way one could consider Dale Watson and his "The Truckin' Sessions, Vol. 2" as anything but. The album is a follow-up to his most popular release of his long career, "The Truckin' Sessions...
- roughstock.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
At last fall's Americana Music Association conference in Nashville, everybody wanted to be Dale Watson. Many of the bands performing had fallen in love with honky-tonk music and were performing their versions of it, in some cases post-modernly, in others, with a self-conscious lack of irony. Watson, on the other hand, has been singing honky-tonk more or less his entire musical career with the exception of a brief, unpleasant dalliance in Nashville which led him to write "Nashville Rash...
- www.offbeat.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
Dale Watson's deep and soulful baritone is a thing of real beauty and a true marvel, one perfectly suited for singing not only country songs, but truckin' country songs, which is no doubt exactly why there are now two volumes of Watson singing self-penned tributes to the men who man the rigs (e.g., Truckin' Man, I Got to Drive, Jack's Truck Stop and Café and Truck Stop in LaGrange)...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
The warm baritone of Dale Watson booms authentic on just about any country song, but on the The Truckin' Sessions Vol. 2, it's as high-octane as a big rig. Watson's sophomore take on highway sturm und twang tailgates his 1998 journey on the highways with mostly traditional themes...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
The fact that Austin honky-tonker Dale Watson is protesting Koch's release of this album only attests to his workmanship. The Little Darlin' Sessions' sole problem lies in its antiseptic sound. According to Watson, these Sessions are a collection of unfinished roughs, but the truth is his voice never sounded better, and the musicianship is top-notch, particularly the pedal steel of legend Lloyd Green...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
With his tattooed arms
and Mohawk-pompadour, Dale Watson cuts an impressive figure. But
it's his music that makes a real impression. On Blessed or Damned, Watson does
honky-tonk the old-fashioned way, without regard for radio, only
for real-life themes (truckers, cheaters, sausage and eggs) and
instrumental solos as authentically roadhouse as sweat-stained
shirts and a neon tan. B+
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Okay, Dale Watson hates country music. Or, rather, he hates today's country music. He thinks it's "crap", the songs are stupid and the singers are bad, Nashville has lost its heart, all that stuff. On the front of this record, he's posing with a tombstone that reads "Country Music R.I.P."
This is a very fashionable viewpoint, one shared by old-timers and hipsters and alt.country longhairs alike...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-20
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