★★★★★
Listening to Jim Cuddy's new solo disc, I daydreamed that the Ford brothers had learned the error of their ways, made friends with Margaret Atwood, partied it up at Pride and were now sitting down with us and laughing at their previous follies. That vision could've been inspired by Cuddy's two major themes: how the city can wear you down, and the classic happy ending of the boy-meets-girl tale...
- www.nowtoronto.com
2011-09-26
★★★★★
It's always hard telling the difference between a Jim Cuddy solo album and a Blue Rodeo one, other than the absence of co-frontman Greg Keelor and his edgy input. It's been said numerous times over the years that Cuddy's poppier sensibilities make him the McCartney to Keelor's eccentric and darker Lennon.
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
The second member of Toronto's Blue Rodeo to go solo. To be honest, much of the CD is not much different from the material Jim Cuddy performs with that band: country-tinged rock that isn't out of place on "new country" radio stations. But, as with Blue Rodeo, there is always an edge that prevents the music from sounding too slick, or too country...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27