★★★★★
Even during the hairspray-choked height of the 80s hair-metal boom there was no shortage of straightforward, blue-collar, tough hard rock made by unglamorous bar bands. Georgia Satellites were one of these, bringing the Southern twang of their native Georgia to the form, in much the way Lynyrd Skynyrd had in the 70s, and Black Crowes would in the 90s...
- recordcollectormag.com
2014-07-17
★★★★★
No longer content to be known as a boogie animal, Dan Baird shares with us his pain, his songcraft, his abiding respect for Lowell George. Just what we needed--a pretentious boogie animal.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-17
★★★★★
If you love "Keep Your Hands to Yourself" for its own raunchy self rather than appreciating the alternative it afford to Bon Jovi and Cyndi Lauper, you want this album. Opening the B is a bottleneck rocker that slides as hard as "Happy," and while nothing else matches the inspiration of hit and follow-up, these guys do know how to put out those two-guitar basics. They just don't know why--except to provide an alternative to Bon Jovi and Cyndi Lauper...
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
Forget bars 'n' barbeque--the 24-hour eatery of the title tune belongs to Dan Baird's new sweetie ("I just got to know if that thing is open all night"), who shouldn't be confused with "Mon Cheri" ("Her skirt rolled up and I could see she was French"). I know, I know, but trust me when I say their appetite makes up for their boogie recidivism. Sure they'd like to be the Stones, but they're smart enough to know they won't make it and young enough to take their fun where they can get it.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
The Georgia Satellites cruised to platinum on their debut album with the novelty success of "Keep Your Hands to Yourself," and they keep the rural-Chuck Berry riffs and gags coming on Open All Night. There are some welcome steps forward, but for the most part the quartet keeps to the formula that worked so well last time.Working again with producer Jeff Glixman, guitarist-singers Dan Baird and Rick Richards still play as loud and hard as their songs permit...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Though the 'Land of Salvation and Sin' is steeped in tradition, the Georgia Satellites make it sound like virgin territory. This is a coming-of-age album for the band, whose first two efforts had energy to burn but not enough musical inspiration. Good-ol'-boyisms dominated the Satellites' material, and the reductive riffing of too much of their music made it seem as if Bachman-Turner Overdrive had motored south...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Dirty Rolling Stones-like guitar grunge played by Rick Richards and topped by the adenoidal singing of Dan Baird. Especially enjoyable on the hits "Keep Your Hands to Yourself" and "Battleship Chains."
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Though the 'Land of Salvation and Sin' is steeped in tradition, the Georgia Satellites make it sound like virgin territory. This is a coming-of-age album for the band, whose first two efforts had energy to burn but not enough musical inspiration. Good-ol'-boyisms dominated the Satellites' material, and the reductive riffing of too much of their music made it seem as if Bachman-Turner Overdrive had motored south...
- www.rollingstone.com
2008-07-30
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