★★★★★
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- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
Michelle Malone, "Debris"
- www.billboard.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Somewhere between Lucinda Williams and Shelby Lynne comes Michelle Malone and her new alt-country album Stompin' Ground. Alternating between softer, soulful ballads and rowdy, riffy blasters, these twelve songs are raucous and jubilant. The pedal-steel driven, bottom-heavy and big-chorused "Lafayette" is easily the record's finest. The song boogies with dirty grooves, front-porch harmonies and an irreverent cowgirl attitude...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
It's easy to miss the Lilith Fair sometimes. While Sarah MacLachlan's project was flawed at best, featuring only a certain type of women in music instead of the larger picture, it was a step in the right direction and great exposure for the female singer/songwriter. Now, with an overabundance of cutely produced, barely legal blonde girls substituting for women in pop music, it's hard not to wonder where the women who are making music with meaning have gone...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-23
★★★★★
It's easy to miss the Lilith Fair sometimes. While Sarah MacLachlan's project was flawed at best, featuring only a certain type of women in music instead of the larger picture, it was a step in the right direction and great exposure for the female singer/songwriter. Now, with an overabundance of cutely produced, barely legal blonde girls substituting for women in pop music, it's hard not to wonder where the women who are making music with meaning have gone...
- www.popmatters.com
2008-11-11
★★★★★
Home Grown, by singer/songwriter Michele Malone, builds on her previous acoustic, folk-rock, girl-with-a-guitar output. Feel-good lyrics combine with Indigo Girls-style strumming to produce an album with several strong songs. Among the most interesting is "Tonic," which sounds so much like Kansas' "Dust in the Wind" that they should have probably been given a credit. "Avalon" is not treading any new ground musically but manages to be passionate and catchy...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Michelle Malone's major label debut includes crunchy rockers, folkie acoustic numbers, and even some countrified funk. Like many female rockers, the Atlanta-based singer often gets compared to Janis Joplin, which is somewhat appropriate; however, when she's rocking, Malone sounds like a female Ian Astbury of the Cult. Dan Baird and Amy Ray make guest appearances on Relentless, which was produced by Lenny Kaye. Overall, it's not a bad set.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Atlanta-based Michelle Malone follows up her successful return-to-roots Stompin' Ground release from 2003 with another slab of gritty, boot-scootin' Southern folk-rock, Sugarfoot. She hedges her bets a bit by including the sweeping, mid-tempo "Where Is the Love," obviously tailored to find its way onto radio since it appears in two versions -- one called "radio mix" -- but Malone is no sellout and has recorded another tough, no-nonsense collection dominated by rugged, folksy blues-rock...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
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