★★★★★
A Mike Cooley solo album is a treat for Drive-By Truckers fans. Fellow Trucker Patterson Hood has been more prolific and much praised, but Cooley is a fine writer and performer, and this live acoustic collection spotlights his lyrics and the flexibility of his songwriting. Eleven of his Truckers contributions get stripped down and rebuilt with a more intimate feel. Some already acoustic-heavy songs like "Loaded Gun in the Closet" and "Eyes Like Glue" are no-brainers...
- thephoenix.com
2013-04-04
★★★★★
Cooley Some say that all good songs can be stripped down to an acoustic guitar; The Fool on Every Corner certainly supports this. Hailed as one of the finest sidekicks to ever step onstage with Southern rock torchbearers The Drive-By Truckers, Mike Cooley's solo debut, with lines like "rock and roll means well but it can't help tellin' young boys lies" ("Marry Me"), is a reminder that there may not be a better songwriter in the genre...
- www.relix.com
2013-01-24
★★★★★
Since the band's inception, Mike Cooley has been the Drive-By Truckers understated "other voice". True, former members Jason Isbell and Shonna Tucker have each had their own turns at the mic, but Cooley co-founded the band with Patterson Hood and his rich southern baritone is instantly recognizable, especially when it butts up against Hood's strained tenor. Besides both having distinctive Alabama drawls, the two men sound nothing alike when singing...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-01-16
★★★★★
"Good ideas always start with a full glass," Mike Cooley, singer-guitarist-songwriter of Southern road warriors Drive-By Truckers, sings here in "Pulaski." But Cooley sounds as sharp and wise as a Georgia country judge on this solo debut, an acoustic live set mostly drawn from his Truckers songs. The emphasis is plain and compelling: Cooley's syrupy drawl and his acute observations of the weird in everyday life (the redneck neighbor in "Guitar Man Upstairs") and almost comic, tender salvation...
- www.rollingstone.com
2013-01-14
★★★★★
Cooley Records Here you go, folks: a big helping of pure Mike Cooley, straight up. No Drive-By Trucker bandmates; no electric guitar; heck - not even a frigging pick. The Fool On Every Corner is the next best thing to having Cooley sitting on a stool in your kitchen with his acoustic guitar (and the occasional banjo) playing, singing, cracking jokes and ... well ... just being Cooley...
- www.jambands.com
2012-12-12
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