★★★★★
When I first heard that john Oates was making a 'country' record, I was skeptical. I wasn't so sure how one half of the 80s blue-eyed-soul band Hall & Oates would sound on such a record, his influence on Jimmy Wayne notwithstanding. Still, from the opening of Mississippi Mile, it's pretty apparent that John Oates isn't singing mainstream country music or even traditional country music. Rather, he's made an ode to the southern blues and roots music that inspired him...
- www.roughstock.com
2011-05-11
★★★★★
When I first heard that john Oates was making a 'country' record, I was skeptical. I wasn't so sure how one half of the 80s blue-eyed-soul band Hall & Oates would sound on such a record, his influence on Jimmy Wayne notwithstanding. Still, from the opening of Mississippi Mile, it's pretty apparent that John Oates isn't singing mainstream country music or even traditional country music. Rather, he's made an ode to the southern blues and roots music that inspired him...
- roughstock.com
2011-04-18
★★★★★
Apart from soundtrack work—notably, Peter Fonda's Outlaw Blues from 1977—John Oates has never recorded a studio album, unlike his partner Daryl Hall, who is onto his fourth. He's ridiculed for being the original Andrew Ridgeley, and for rocking the moustachioed waiter look (actually, he's clean-shaven on Phunk Shui's appalling cheapo sleeve), yet Oates was responsible for some of the best songs on their fabulous mid-'70s records Abandoned Luncheonette, War Babies and Daryl Hall John Oates...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2010-06-19
★★★★★
John Oates took his time to release his first solo album -- about 20 years after Hall & Oates' commercial and creative peak, and 22 years after his partner, Daryl Hall, stepped outside of their duo for his superb solo debut, Sacred Songs. Unlike Hall, who delivered two ambitious, rock-oriented album and then moved back to familiar pop-soul territory, Oates dives right in with pop-soul and lite-funk, spiked with a little bit of acoustic folk, with the rather ridiculously titled Phunk Shui...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
John Oates took his time to release his first solo album -- about 20 years after Hall & Oates' commercial and creative peak, and 22 years after his partner, Daryl Hall, stepped outside of their duo for his superb solo debut, Sacred Songs. Unlike Hall, who delivered two ambitious, rock-oriented albums and then moved back to familiar pop-soul territory, Oates dives right in with pop-soul and lite-funk spiked with a little bit of acoustic folk, with the rather ridiculously titled Phunk Shui...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
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