★★★★★
From the opening riff of "Don't Nothin' Take My Breath" to closer "Gone" ten tracks later, LiveWire has created an exciting breakout debut album with a tight contemporary country performance highlighted by radio-friendly production, tasteful instrumental licks and yearning vocals. Getting their start about ten years ago at fraternal lodges and clubs in southwestern Missouri and northeastern Oklahoma, the band then took their music on the road nationwide for six years until members decided they...
- rootsmusicreport.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
It is sometimes hard trying to talk about a new band, particularly when that band has grown so much from album to album but that's exactly what's happened with Joplin, Missouri's LiveWire and their full-length national debut Livin'. There was a world of potential in the band's self-titled EP from 2011 (which featured the charming "Tater Fed" and "Gone"). On Livin' the six-piece runs through 10 tracks , of which six of the tracks were written by members of the band...
- www.roughstock.com
2012-11-12
★★★★★
While there's much omnipresence in the Twin Cities Hip-Hop scene of street rap, we run into a lot of circumstances where a lot of it has been done really half-assed, or more treated as a get rich/radio airplay scheme, which doesn't give it a whole lot of credibility...
- www.reviler.org
2012-06-18