★★★★★
Old Man Luedecke's albums are invariably domestic and eccentric, touching on home, food, family, being forced to go away on tour to earn a living and, perhaps most of all, his enduring love for his wife Teresa. But unlike his previous albums -- notably his last full-length, 2012's , which he recorded in Nashville) -- , Luedecke's sixth, was even recorded at home, in a cabin the songwriter, banjo player and now also guitarist built by hand near his house outside of Chester, Nova Scotia...
- exclaim.ca
2015-07-23
★★★★★
Where to go after Nashville? If you're Old Man Luedecke, home (or close to it). The Chester, Nova Scotia-based Juno-winning banjo player shook things up a little by messing around with rock 'n' roll and cussing (yes, cussing!) on his latest EP. You can't call it folk - there's too much fat guitar-playing, drum machines and fun little production flourishes for that - but it's certainly OML...
- nowtoronto.com
2014-02-13
★★★★★
As a rule, you can never have too much banjo. But you can definitely have too little. Old Man Luedecke, beloved award-winning Halifax singer-songwriter, teams up here with Joel Plaskett, fellow beloved award-winning Halifax singer-songwriter, for a three-song EP. may be over as fast as it begins, but it's a tantalizing sample of a musical match made in, well, Haligonia. The EP kicks off with the J.J...
- exclaim.ca
2014-03-18
★★★★★
Let's get one thing straight if you're new to Nova Scotia bluegrass-country musician and banjo picker Old Man Luedecke: he's not an old man. Not really, though he's a man wise beyond his years. And, of course, "Old Man"--that's not his real name. It's Chris. And, in many respects, Old Man Luedecke is sort of to Canada as to what Kristian Matsson (aka the Tallest Man on Earth) is to Sweden...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-11-14
★★★★★
Banjos are, on the whole, cheerful, optimistic-sounding instruments. Let a banjo drive an album and you'll likely get an upbeat, springtime soundtrack to crocus-blooming and kite-flying. That's what Old Man Luedecke's got on his hands. Ironically, the Chester, Nova Scotia, folkie tackles heavy subjects on this follow-up to his Juno-winning second album. Inchworm is a life's-harder-than-I-thought lament, while The Palace Is Golden speaks to the grief that comes with infertility...
- nowtoronto.com
2010-04-10
★★★★★
Old Man Luedecke (who's given name is Chris) is a Canadian banjo player who has taken Americana folk music north of the border to show us how it's done. With all that wide open land up there, it makes sense that a Canuck would take so well to rural sounds...
- www.popmatters.com
2008-11-11
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