★★★★★
With a suitcase full of empty dreams A guitar with broken strings A busted heart that longs to sing the blues A mind that always leads me wrong A head full of Hank Williams songs I'm sorry honey, but this highway's home The above lines were the last words that Nashville country music artist Will Hoge delivered on his 2007 masterpiece Draw the Curtains, my favorite album from that particular year and one of the five best records anyone wrote all last decade...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-10-16
★★★★★
A decade ago Will Hoge's music was considered by "Nashville" to be "Too rock for Country" and "New York" thought it was "Too country for rock." But a funny thing happened in the decade since, The genres have blurred their lines so much so that Will Hoge is now embraced as both a songwriter ("Even If It Breaks Your Heart," a #1 multi-platinum hit for Eli Young Band) and as an artist ("Strong" is gaining airplay on radio and is the anchor of Chevrolet's 2014 advertising campaign for their...
- www.roughstock.com
2013-10-16
★★★★★
Release Date: Sept. 27, 2011 At this point in his career Will Hoge doesn't really need to make any more albums to prove his worth or demand attention. To this date, every album in his discography has been widely praised by critics and each successive release has been more commercially successful than the other. Life got even better for Hoge when the upstart country group Eli Young Band recorded his "Even If It Breaks Your Heart," and landed the song on the country charts...
- absolutepunk.net
2011-10-03
★★★★★
Number Seven may prove to be a lucky number for Will Hoge. His new disc and seventh studio album contains 11 tracks of gripping, gritty roots rock that just might deliver Hoge out of cultdom and into more commercial success. Hoge actually is lucky to be around to make this album, having had a near-fatal accident in 2008. While he doesn't really directly address this undoubtedly traumatic event, the subject of morality does surface several times...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2011-09-29
★★★★★
With the release of Number Seven, Will Hoge has not only followed up the fantastic album The Wreckage (which features the original version of "Even if it Breaks Your Heart") with a great album but an even more rich, textured album with, as our friends at Farcethemusic tweeted, "more hooks than a tackle box...
- www.roughstock.com
2011-09-28
★★★★★
The Wreckage has all the clamour and zeal of a man given a second chance in life. This isn't surprising since a collision with a van in 2008 took Will Hoge from touring barrooms in the States into the emergency room to battle for his life. Alongside learning to walk again, the Tennessee-born artist has begun to reconstruct a career with this fourth studio album...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2010-08-22
★★★★★
Those who have caught his incendiary live show or who picked up his self-released first album already know what a huge, cathartic kick a Will Hoge song can be. Those who will experience him for the first time on his major-label debut are in for a fist-pumping, hip-shaking, chorus-shouting treat...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
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