““...Villalobos' melodies remind one of the best Bruce Springsteen, John Fogerty, and John Mellencamp.She often slowly builds the intensity of a song in an almost cinematic manner, setting a mood, introducing a plot,then moving in for the emotional kill."
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-VINTAGE GUITAR MAGAZINE
"...Full of confident, instantly addictive alt country rock songs sung in a great voice that's not only like-able but like someone you can believe."
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-MOJO MAGAZINE
“Villalobos' compositions are not so simple, coming off the speakers like holographic cracker jack surprises that reveal a new depth with the slightest shift in light.
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AMERICAN SONGWRITER
““Villalobos has the restlessness of the most moving country music but she combines it with a rock spirit that is always forthright and never forced...” ”
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HARP MAGAZINE.
"...one of those recordings you'll be playing in a decade, it's timeless and combines
every element that makes a recording a classic....It doesn't get much better than this....
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PASTE MAGAZINE
"Abundant lyric and musical hooks. This is intriguing stuff..."
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NO DEPRESSION
“Rock N Roll Pony will remind you of what a great rock album is supposed to sound like…electricity and honestyt… A skillfull amalagon of indie rock, country and power pop. Rock n Roll Pony defies easy classification.”
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ACOUSTIC GUITAR MAGAZINE
"...Unquestionably the finest voice in the country-rock genre today… VIillalobos is an artist that others will be compared to in the very
near future...”
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POP MATTERS
"A contender for album of the year"
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BBC RADIO2 DJ- BOB HARRIS
“...often compared to Lucinda Williams, though Lucinda has never made a record with the kind of hard kicks and harder hooks that can close up, if not cancel out the superficial distance between pop and roots, between insider and outsider art, if she had it would sound something like "Miles Away",
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NO DEPRESSION
"...Tougher in Spirit, Cali singer Gina Villalobos sounds like a distaff Jesse Malin on Miles Away..."
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UNCUT
"All hail the new queen of country rock!...She's got a copy of Exile on Main Street and kicks Jesse Malin's ass - this is country rock at its most melodic, subtle and heart broken."
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AMERICANA UK
"Miles Away", a vivid emotional portrait of twist and turns.... with more hooks
in the melody than a models wardrobe..."
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MAVERICK MAGAZINE
"....With all the gift and guide of a Hank Williams and the tequilla rock swagger of pre blood-clot Stones. GIna boasts an awful lot more than an interesting name..."
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SCOTISH EVENING TIMES
“Gina Villalobos grabs the listener by the hair with a smile on her face and does so by using rock & roll's brash dynamics, country's instantly catchy melodies, and the lyric Imagery of a guttersnipe poet...”
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ALL MUSIC GUIDE
".....If Marylin Monroe had the face of an angle and a body for sin, then Gina Villalobos has a voice made for country-flecked rock 'n' roll.....
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IRISH TIMES
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