★★★★★
For those too young to remember Lou Ann Barton at Antone's or to know her as Jimmie Vaughan's vocal partner, the reissue of her debut album, Old Enough, is long overdue. Produced by Atlantic Records guru Jerry Wexler and the Eagles' Glenn Frey in 1982, Old Enough hasn't aged completely in retrospect, a half-realized result of Wexler's unerring nose for talent and Frey's mushy rock sensibility...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
She's got a fine little instrument, like a nubile Bonnie Bramlett--the drawl pure cracker, the pitch and rhythm deep blue. But what she's selling with it is tractability. For Glenn Frey she poses as a flapper in the age of Deep Throat, for Jerry Wexler she sings good old songs in good old Muscle Shoals. Sincerely in both cases I'm sure, which makes things worse.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-17
★★★★★
Due to the busy schedules of Marcia Ball, Angela Strehli, Lou Ann Barton and producer Mac "Dr. John" Rebennack, Dreams Come True took five years to make. As testimony to its spontaneous vitality, the album sounds as if it had been cut in a day.These three women the first ladies of the Austin, Texas, rhythm & blues scene are not coy or cool. They attack this collection of venerable R&B; tunes and originals full bore, throats wide open and wailing. And if it occasionally seems like they're t...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-03-22
★★★★★
The Bush-era machismo of the title aside, it's hard to imagine that anyone would need to venture beyond the sound of Lou Ann Barton's third album or the expanse of leg she flashes on the album's cover to understand that this woman means nasty business. At age thirty-five, after nearly two decades of live performance, this formidable Texas singer has pulled together a set of her favorite R&B; burners, and the results are incendiary.Barton's power as a singer derives not from assertive postu...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-03-21
★★★★★
Lou Ann Barton didn't have the best of luck in her early career. Incongruously signed to a major label for 1982's Old Enough, she delivered a fine debut that was utterly out of step with the times. Shunted to a tiny indie in her adopted hometown of Austin, she recorded 1986's oddly poppy Forbidden Tones, an album of John Hiatt and Beatles covers that recalled Marti Jones' albums from the same period; it was a fine record, but it was a complete stylistic aberration...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
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