★★★★★
There aren't many vocalists who could do the songs of Don Gibson the true justice they deserve but, thankfully, Mandy Barnett is one of 'em. Making good on a promise to Don himself that she'd one day record a whole album of his songs, Mandy partnered with Rounder Records and Cracker Barrel Old Country Store to bring the 12 track I Can't Stop Loving You to fans...
- www.roughstock.com
2013-11-12
★★★★★
From the time she was a young girl, Mandy Barnett has wanted nothing more than to sing country music and despite a bit of bad luck with labels that signed her and then folded right after releasing her two albums in the 1990s, the singer has remained one of Nashville's most gifted, nationally unknown vocalists. Featuring a pliable voice that recalls Patsy Cline (she played Patsy in the Always.....
- www.roughstock.com
2011-12-13
★★★★★
From the time she was a young girl, Mandy Barnett has wanted nothing more than to sing country music and despite a bit of bad luck with labels that signed her and then folded right after releasing her two albums in the 1990s, the singer has remained one of Nashville's most gifted, nationally unknown vocalists. Featuring a pliable voice that recalls Patsy Cline (she played Patsy in the Always.....
- roughstock.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
The main thing her critics'-choice debut proved was that when you put a good young singer up against a bunch of Kostas songs, the Kostas songs win. Not that this 23-year-old Patsy Cline fan is any less produced or conceptualized here--more so, actually. But the conceptualization is so audacious, and so perfectly suited to her timbre and swing, that it's more fun than what it rips off, by which I mean countrypolitan...
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
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- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
Push the button and it sounds like Nashville, 1960: tinkling piano, cooing chorus, Patsy Cline. Here's a 1999 time capsule of producer Owen Bradley's classic countrypolitan sound, with Bradley himself in the booth (he cut four tracks before his death last year). That doesn't necessarily make I've Got a Right to Cry less formulaic than the latest hat act, but Barnett does have a fabulous voice; she needs one to do such a good Patsy. B-
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
A native Tennessean, Mandy Barnett has a built-in hillbilly twang, but can also sing inflectionlesscountry rock, à la Ronstadt. Her album is one of the bestmajor-label country debuts of the last 12 months: Now let's seeif she can breach the walls of that bastion of sameness, countryTop 40. B+
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
On her graceful second album, twenty-three-year-old Tennessee native Mandy Barnett distances herself emphatically from the contemporary country charts by dipping back in time and forward in maturity. Tricked up like a Forties siren on the CD package, Barnett covers semiobscure tunes from honky-tonk's midcentury scratchy-juke-joint apex -- think Dorothy Lamour singing Patsy Cline...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Tennessee native Mandy Barnett had already been busy bringing Patsy Cline back to life by playing (and singing the songs of) the rowdy, legendary vocalist in the stage production Always...Patsy Cline. Then Barnett, not yet even 21 years old, took that experience and used it to power her self-titled debut album for Asylum Records. Cline's influence is out front on Barnett's handling of Willie Nelson's 1962 classic "Three Days" and the brand-new Kostas/Richard Bennett song "I'll Just Pretend...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
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