★★★★★
When Junior Brown's twangy "Hang Up and Drive" opens his new EP album, Volume Ten, you hear an element of Dave Dudley's "Six Days on the Road." However, if you think this six-song project is all retro truck-driving country music, think again. While the opener is a variation of honky tonkin' country that lyrically captures a trucker's lifestyle, the next cut "Apathy Waltz" (with just guitar, bass and voice) is a humorous and jazzy song about desensitization and detachment...
- rootsmusicreport.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
If you've never seen Junior Brown live, this might be the next best thing. Recorded at his home base, Austin's Continental Club, Brown really gets the sparks flying. Besides doing more with a guitar (actually, two guitars made into one) than a monkey can with a peanut, the guy is 175 pounds of Texas country soul. The country fried "Broke Down South of Dallas," gets the wheels turning and the audience churning...
- www.offbeat.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
the essence of Western swing--jazzy picking, lousy singing, and a light heart ("Gotta Get Up Every Morning," "Venom Wearin' Denim")
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
No text for this review; see http://robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-cg90/grades-90s.php.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
Track Listing: Little Rivi-Airhead; It Hurts When I Do That; Where Has All The Money Gone; The Bridge Washed Out; Hill Country Hot Rod Man; Jimmy Jones; Let's Go Back; Two Rons Don't Make A Right; You Inspire Me; Are You Just Cutting Up; Foxy Lady; Monkey Wrench Blues...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2009-06-05
★★★★★
Virtuosity as novelty act, meaning virtuosity that knows itself ("Stupid Blues," "Peelin' Taters").
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-02-27