"You ain't no good time...you're a blast. I like that ornery stuff."

"Bad News Travels Fast bears the lofty weight of the southern songwriter genre with great class and ease"

"Yo man... Luv it!!!! Super good sounds!!! "

"Sounds great. Great songs, great playing and singing!

"My boy Boo Ray doing that thang he does ... he's one of the best unknowns I know"

"West coast glimmer, Nashville knowledge and the free loving grit of the southern blues"

"plays, start to finish, with so much swagger that, at first listen, the album is almost too much fun to notice how good the writing and instrumentation is."

"The ensemble's urgent, straight ahead pace and Ray's laid back southern drawl make for a stout combo"

"there is a distinctive celebratory wail to his mandolin-driven tunes that I find simultaneously invigorating and familiar."