★★★★★
Reckless Kelly's eighth studio album is a classic road record. Nearly all of the songs on Long Night Moon are about traveling, or saying goodbye before hitting the road. These sorts of songs should, logically, be worn out and boring after the decades. But people never seem to get sick of love songs, and bands never seem to get sick of writing road songs...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-12-11
★★★★★
Reckless Kelly is the country equivalent of the Counting Crows-Willy Braun is the driving creative force, the singer and the songwriter; the supporting cast is nothing short of brilliant; and the fans always scream for more. But Reckless Kelly is several albums in and has yet to have its "Mr. Jones" moment. Now is Yep Roc's chance to take RK and run with it: on Bulletproof, everything's fallen into place for a grand welcoming to the Big Show...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
In an era of digital media, album covers have long since been cast aside as a marketing tool, and a generation of kids who lined their lockers with CD inserts has given way to a generation of kids who download skins for their i-pods. However, 2011 may be the year of the great album cover resurgence as an increasing number of artists have been making album covers for fans who buy albums, with no though to additional features for the electronic age...
- www.roughstock.com
2011-09-22
★★★★★
Over the course of the last decade Reckless Kelly has carved out their own niche within the Texas/roots rock scenes with their unique brand of tunes. Often inspired by legendary outlaw country singer/songwriter Pinto Bennett (who was also an early supporter of Reckless Kelly), the band decided to give thanks to Bennett by recording a complete album of his songs...
- roughstock.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Country-rock was superseded as a description long ago by new, alt. and insurgent country, not to mention the catch-all 'Americana'. But the old '70s terminology should surely be revived to describe Austin five-piece Reckless Kelly, who sound more like Pure Prairie League than Uncle Tupelo. Led by the brothers Willy and Cody Braun, the band's third album stomps rowdily on tracks like "Let's Just Fall" and "Nobody's Girl"...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2010-06-19
★★★★★
Reckless Kelly's 2008 album, Bulletproof, proved its most mature and substantive offering to date, the local quintet brandishing its polished Red Dirt roots-rock with purpose. There was perhaps no better time, then, for the Braun brothers to pursue the long planned tribute to their former hometown hero, the "Idaho Cowboy" Pinto Bennett of the Famous Motel Cowboys...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2010-02-12
★★★★★
After four celebrated albums and one acoustic live album, Austin, TX's (via Portland, OR) Reckless Kelly let the hammer down and offer a smoking double-live document that comes with a bonus DVD, offering fans a look at the excitement that occurred at Marcia Ball's La Zona Rosa in March of 2006...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
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