★★★★★
After a long absence from recording new material, Cohn, the winner of a Best New Artist Grammy in 1991 for "Walking in Memphis," is back with a set of well-crafted, compassionate songs testifying to moments of loss, resilience, and gratitude. The untimely coincidence of Hurricane Katrina and a near-death experience, while being carjacked in 2005, shapes a broad palette of thoughtful testimonies, to the ongoing pulse of life after mostly ordinary and sometimes uncanny forces, have conspired to...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
On his suitably titledsecond album, The Rainy Season, Marc Cohn works himself up to an intensely earnest frame ofmind and can't seem to find his joy button. Despite varied texturesin the arrangements, his husky but limited baritone grinds everythinginto a brooding sameness. This is the album to put on when you reallywant to savor a lousy day. C+
- ew.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
Cohn sings like a sentimental Warren Zevon--an exclusively sentimental Warren Zevon, I mean. He's got some tunes. But his lyrics are sticky with decaying Americana, and he shows no grasp of his limitations. A folkie with a piano is dreaming concert hall--a level of signification higher than folkie talent generally reaches.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
The first three tracks on MarcCohn's debut album ? the gospel-tinged top 20 single "Walking inMemphis," the subtly chugging rocker "Ghost Train," and the snazzy'50s homage "Silver Thunderbird" ? show so much musical flair that ifthe album stopped there he'd easily be the most appealing popsinger-songwriter to hit the faded-Levi's circuit since BruceHornsby...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
A divorce, being shot in the head during a car-jacking, the devastation of Hurricane Katrina: All those events inform the new album by singer-songwriter Marc Cohn. If all you know of Cohn is the overblown soul of "Walking in Memphis,"the 1991 hit that won him a Best New Artist Grammy, the ten songs on Parade will surprise you...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-03-22
★★★★★
Marc Cohn's second outing manages to easily overcome the sophomore curse -- the material here is strong, relaxed, very assured, managing to be dramatic without being blatant. The overall album is warm and hypnotic, covering a variety of moods. It's a terrific and subtle piece of work.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Marc Cohn is one of the finest debut albums of the 1990s, and it brought adult piano pop back to the radio. Every song is well-crafted, and Cohn's singalong choruses, introspective lyrics, and vocal stylings reveal his '60s soul and '70s singer/songwriter influences. His voice is rich, but has a roughness that adds emotion when stretching to the upper end of his range while remaining subtle at the lower end...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
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