★★★★★
What? A new Everlast album? His sixth one? Back from the dead (again?), Everlast is still mellowing away on his acoustic trip. It's already been 13 years since his first solo hit, the folky rap anthem What It's Like. The MC is much more of a cowboy than a homeboy, nowadays. As if Clapton tried to do some urban folk formatted for the comfy radio stations with that a-hole Kid Rock. Sort of...
- hour.ca
2011-11-21
★★★★★
Just in time for the Halloween season, one-time Ice-T protege Everlast drops his latest solo album "Songs of the Ungrateful Living." Winged insects crawl across a meatless skull, which one can only assume is because the maggots got to it first. Piled up around it and underneath it on the album's cover are detritus like a used Bic lighter and what one can only surmise is an empty whiskey bottle...
- rapreviews.com
2011-10-27
★★★★★
When his second official solo album, "Whitey Ford Sings the Blues," went platinum in 1998, it seemed like Everlast was on a fast track to superstardom. The one-time House of Pain frontman had a smash single and video with "What It's Like," and he sounded quite a bit smarter and more ambitious than peers like Fred Durst and Kid Rock. Then came his disappointing follow-up and a tornado of record company turnover, leaving the white rapper label-less, his musical future in doubt...
- www.soundspike.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
If sound and quality separate good and bad records, and depth and balance divide good and great records, Everlast's Love, War and the Ghost of Whitey Ford is a great record. The album features a plethora of artists playing viola, clarinet, saxophone, cello, trumpet, double bass and French horn. Seven of the 17 tracks feature more than 10 musicians; Everyone boasts 21 players...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
The ex-House of Pain front man got all Kid Rocked-out on his last two albums and continues with White Trash Beautiful to ride his acoustic-rap-blues around the trailer park. The music is decent and his gruff voice is perfect for this hybrid, but essentially this is 15 versions of the same song: guitar, wica-wica scratch, drum beat and repeat...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
Blender doesn't remember asking for any of it, but Everlast wants to share his pain. His third album of acoustic faux-blues and plodding, mechanical beats finds the hoarse, hirsute former House of Pain frontman ("Jump Around") vindictively complaining about being dumped and offering clichéd, condescending sketches of blue-collar ? or, as it's now known, white-trash ? life...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
Sound: This album is one word incredible. Everlast has grown up a lot (he had a heart attack during recording which changed his outlook on life) and diversified his music a lot. Instead of being a hard rappin bad boy, Ev is now a soulful troubador who does a little bit of everything. The sound of this album continued blazing a trail that House of Pain started, meaning the sounds that come out are unique in how they mix hip-hop beats and rock melodies, along with some pure songs of each...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2010-06-19
★★★★★
Sound: Ten years after Everlast hit it big with the single "What It's Like, " the former House Of Pain rapper has returned with an even more eclectic mix of tracks on Love, War, and the Ghost of Whitey Ford. You'll find elements of everything Everlast (aka Erik Schrody) has experimented with since 1988, namely hip-hop, rock, and a heavy helping of acoustic-driven material...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
★★★★★
Truthfully speaking, Everlast hasn't been a rap artist for a while now. 1998's "Whitey Ford Sings the Blues" marked the end of his Master of Ceremonies career, and the beginning of a new chapter where the artist who almost singlehandedly made "Celtic Pride" a credible hip-hop phenomenon changed up into a folksy blues singer...
- rapreviews.com
2009-07-21
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