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The Hunger Mountain Boys at The Calvin Theatre, Northampton, MA 11/19/06 [photo by Mark L. Baer]
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“These boys from The Berkshires are a little too melodic to be old-time and a little too rough hewn to be bluegrass.... The album careens from blisteringly fast to cheerfully rambling. Their compositions are indistinguishable in quality and tone from the older tunes covered.”
Dirty Linen Magazine
Feb/March ‘07 #128
"The group's sound is very resolutely old-school, but it's also resolutely eclectic. "Hiccup Remedy Blues" sounds like 1930's hot jazz, while "I've Got The Blues Mary" is more countryish with brother-duo harmonies and some startlingly virtuosic bottleneck slide guitar, and "Departure Day" sounds like an early Monroe Brothers tune with lickety-split guitar/mandolin interplay and tight sweet vocal harmonies. And that's just the first three songs on the album! Very highly recommended."
Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine
"The Hunger Mountain Boys have a great deal to celebrate with Three. They have consistently improved their chops and songwriting abilities and, with the addition of a full-time bass player, have become a crack performing band."
Sing Out!
Vol. 50 #4 / Winter 2007
"...reveling in exuberantly ragged harmonies... too smart to indulge themselves in stale, needless duplication and repetition."
Jerome Clark
Rambles.net, October 2006
Read the Review: http://www.rambles.net/hmb_three06.html
"A listener would be hard pressed to tell the originals from the covers. Highly Recommended."
Country Standard Time Magazine, Sept 2006
"This isn't your grandpa's bluegrass—unless, of course, your grandpa really rocked out with a steel guitar. The Hunger Mountain Boys bring acoustic roots music to a whole new level, paying homage to the soulfulness and sincerity of old-time country while subtly incorporating rock, jazz and ska influences."
Cville Weekly- Charlottesville, VA. SEPT/2006
"[The Hunger Mountain Boys] blow right past 1960's pop revival and kick it even older-school with sweet
pieces of twangy, acoustic Americana that has a '30's and '40's feel"
BOSTON GLOBE — 3/28/06
“Blue Ribbon Waltz
is the real deal as the Hunger Mountain Boys have recreated
those early days of country
music through expert musicianship, joyous vocals and quality
originals and classic material. Well done!
SING
OUT! MAGAZINE / VOL. 49 #2 / SUMMER 2005
“It is only the sonic clearity and warmth of their
recording that makes you realize that you are not actually
living in the past, but hearing its immaculate recreation.....These
guys believe.”
DIRTY
LINEN MAGAZINE
/ #120, OCT/NOV 2005
“This duet is ready to take lovers of bluegrass and
early country music by storm. Their show is alive with
the spirit of the early performers, and you can feel their
love for what they do. Entertaining teamwork;
first class musicianship and singing; good, heartfelt and
sometimes funny material, with some excellent
new songs in the old style. What a combination! It makes
me wish they had a 15-minute radio show I could
listen to every day.”
PETE
“DR. BANJO” WERNICK / SEPT. 2005
“Their unabashed stage show is one not to miss.”
THE
WOODSTOCK TIMES / WOODSTOCK, NY
“The smartly-suited duet ripped out traditional country
and original songs at a furious pace, spitting out
lyrics so rapidly that, at times, it was difficult to keep
up. To make it even more interesting, the duet frequently
changed instruments.“
KENNEBEC
JOURNAL / MORNING SENTINEL, ME / SEPT 12, 2005
“The Hunger Mountain Boys could have easily been performing
sixty years ago instead of at the beginning
of the twenty-first century… Fashioned in the Old
Way features plenty of the old-style duo singing, guaranteed
to raise goosebumps. Expect to hear much more from the Hunger
Mountain Boys.”
BLUEGRASS
UNLIMITED MAGAZINE / MARCH 2004
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