★★★★★
Louisiana Red Hot Honey Island Swamp Band continue their brand of New Orleans music dubbed "Bayou Americana" on Cane Sugar by embracing the city's melting-pot traditions and melding together roots-rock, soul, honky-tonk and rhythm and blues. Once again, Aaron Wilkinson and Chris Mule both write songs and trade lead vocals, but this time around, they enlisted the help of Grammy-winner John Porter to produce the 12 tracks...
- www.jambands.com
2013-09-23
★★★★★
Louisiana Red Hot Honey Island Swamp Band continue their brand of New Orleans music dubbed "Bayou Americana" on Cane Sugar by embracing the city's melting-pot traditions and melding together roots-rock, soul, honky-tonk and rhythm and blues. Once again, Aaron Wilkinson and Chris Mule both write songs and trade lead vocals, but this time around, they enlisted the help of Grammy-winner John Porter to produce the 12 tracks...
- www.relix.com
2013-09-20
★★★★★
There aren't' a lot of good things to say about the destruction that Hurricane Katrina caused, especially in New Orleans. But in a roundabout way, that storm helped form the Honey Island Swamp Band. All five members had been displaced by Katrina in 2005, landing them in San Francisco. It was there that they formed the group which has gone on to release a batch of solid and diverse roots rock albums, of which this is the fourth and arguably best...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-08-10
★★★★★
In the years since the Honey Island Swamp Band released its first record, it has crossed the country and been the secret force behind swamp soulster Eric Lindell. Now it has released its second record, Wishing Well, a record that shows off its roadhouse-right rock 'n' roll. Wishing Well splits its songs between their two main writers and guitarists, Aaron Wilkinson and Chris Mule. Both are good songwriters with tried, true, but not clichéd sentiments...
- www.offbeat.com
2010-11-02
★★★★★
Maybe it's because they formed in San Francisco; or maybe it's because they seem more like a family than a band; or maybe it's because of Chris Mulé's lyrical guitar leads and Aaron Wilkinson's raspy Bob Weir-like yowl, but the Honey Island Swamp Band's gritty, bustling grooves recall mid- Seventies-era Grateful Dead—except these Big Easy boys spice things up with a splash of southern soul...
- www.offbeat.com
2010-11-02
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