The Belgium online music magazine has written a fine review of our CD 'Hillbilly Hayride'.
You can find it on this address: http://www.rootstime.be/ look under CD reviews june 2008. It is in dutch only, but a friend of ours has translated it inti english, and it goes as as follows:
"'Howdy stranger', this is how their website welcomes the stranger. Their 'Hillbilly' album starts with the scratching like an old record player, which has just been started. This is a sample of the old time music which the Danes magically get out of their instruments. No polished songs, but straight from their heart and with songs danced with their feet. The folk music which has been spread a century ago from the Appalachian mountains seems to be their inspiration.
The Danish quartet from Copenhagen has listened with a lot of affection to this old music before it became commercialised. Their Hillbilly is reaching further than a group rehearsal of playing their instruments with excellence. Together with the imaginary moonshine, it is as if they are inhaling the spirit.
In between there is 'Old Time Interlude's' which gives their debut album an authentic character and inevitably brings back the immigration wave, when musicians carried their favorite instrument, next to all their few belongings. 'Little Sadie' and 'Lazy John', sung by the young patriarch Jesper Deleuran, are reminding of Deroll Adams, Pete Stanley and Norman Blake.
The harmonica of Lasse Høi gives a swing to 'old-time' classics as 'Liza Jane' and 'Fishin' Blues' and replaces the violin. The instrumentals shine by the energetic bass sound of Mathias Enevoldsen. And the 'flat picking' guitar play and the 'clawhammer' skills on banjo of Tobias Enevoldsen transform this Danish album directly into an American Hillbilly record, without any imitation or aditional decoration.The bandmembers are reviving, with their instruments and only microphones, the old world in which the railway was bringing women, gamblers, ranchers and those who seek happiness to a dusty city in the New World. Music and dance were the only form of leisure. The Danes know well to put this particular mood into music. In between galop three pony's next to rabbits on the escape, with extraordinary illustrations on the cover of the record.
The scratching intermezzo's are charming and doesn't decrease the modern enthusiasm of the four headed band. It is like 'Old Melinda' is lifting up her skirt to demonstrate modern square dancers what it meant to be young. You can approach this album as a Danish tribute to the Appalachian music, which turns in to a group explosion of joy with the last song 'Fall On My Knees'.
The bunch of 'Big Hungry Joe' is succeeding as new borns to be covered completely in the water of joy of the Hillbilly music and are dragging the listener in it with them."

Marcie
www.rootstime.be