★★★★★
While their career has had a rocky ride stateside, in their native country Canada Emerson Drive are undoubtedly stars. Thanks to this status, the band has released A Decade of Drive: 10 Years of Hits via Open Road Records in Canada...
- roughstock.com
2011-02-28
★★★★★
For all of the claims that Emerson Drive is nothing but a group of good-looking guys who were put together to capitalize on the boy band craze earlier this decade, Emerson Drive has proven to have honest-to-goodness musical talent and except for a couple of tracks and places on their new album "Believe," they are playing the music that you hear on the CD, something that's still not that common among Nashville-based groups...
- roughstock.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Led by the rich-toned lead vocals of Brad Mates, the Canadian-bred band's first two albums on Dreamworks received tons of high-powered accolades from the country music community -- including Billboard's Top Country Artist of the Year and Group of the Year for two consecutive years from the Canadian Country Music Association...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Emerson Drive, a band of Canadian transplants, eases right into the Music Row pocket with its first effort, a collection of amiable tunes delivered with polish and some degree of drama. What's most refreshing is that the band wrote hardly any of it; with so many non-performing writers in Nashville, it's a blessing to find a self-contained group that doesn't have to inflict its own mediocre material on the world...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28