★★★★★
Singer/songwriter Pokey LaFarge can be as bluegrass as Bill Monroe, as country as Johnny Cash and as folk as Bob Dylan. In contemporary references, the nearly-30-year-old is as much of a traditionalist as the Carolina Chocolate Drops or Luke Winslow-King. And on his self-titled release--his debut on Jack White's Third Man Records--LaFarge blends these musical styles better than ever before...
- www.pastemagazine.com
2013-07-26
★★★★★
Unrepentantly old-school, with a nasal vibrato that can recall Jack White's, this 30-year-old is a perfect fit for the re-formed White Stripe's label. LaFarge taps into Western swing, Twenties jazz and country blues, with hot brass, banjo, lap steel and fiddle, making virtuosic artisanal pop that's less Mumford & Sons than Squirrel Nut Zippers...
- www.rollingstone.com
2013-06-18
★★★★★
The musicianship exhibited on Pokey LaFarge is impeccable, a credit to producer Ketch Secor's (Old Crow Medicine Show) deft hand and ear. Every instrument plays superbly with one another to create a beautiful aural canvas. LaFarge's slight country drawl and understated twang nails the '20s period the music evokes, and the effort is even more rewarding than Diana Krall's recent endeavor in the same genre. Lyrically, there is an engaging story to be told in each of the album's twelve tracks...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-06-05
★★★★★
After releasing a couple solo albums, Middle of Everywhere is Pokey LaFarge's second recording with the South City Three, yielding another fine interpretation of old time tunes. Working the white side of a black minstrel tradition made popular by many performers in the first part of the last century, Pokey and the band ably romp through 13 self-penned compositions...
- www.glidemagazine.com
2011-08-01
★★★★★
A far cry from the doldrums that inhabit the lives of us here nine-to-five suburbanites, this fine album slaps you about the head with the reinvigorated sound of opportunity and wide open spaces and screams 'wake up' in your face. Not being one to live out a historian's philosophy, Pokey suggests we face facts: the present's the only stab we've got at getting to the future, so we may as well have a hoot...
- www.music-news.com
2010-11-02
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