“This is a good album, well worth listening to, and there’s not a single subpar track on the record. It’s progressive and hard-hitting, but also pays plenty of homage to the blues, country, and rock ‘n’ roll of days gone by. The Review: 9/10”

““This trio is unbelievably tight and the music is so in the pocket, not unlike early SRV. This, kids, is the good stuff.” – TOP TRACKS: Jupiter & Mars, Bologna Sandwich Man”

““So what took me so long to “discover” him? He is a gifted musician with equal parts bravado, humor and gritty blues authenticity. I’m going to have to catch up by purchasing a few of his previous releases. Shouldn’t he be much more than “secretly” famous by now?””

“ SECRETLY FAMOUS, indeed. If the Rev. Jimmie Bratcher keeps up the quality of this music, he might not be that way for long. ”

“I’ll be completely candid and tell you that a couple of my personal biases surfaced when I heard about Secretly Famous. I am suspicious when I see the honorific “Reverend” in use, unless the Reverend in question is a civil rights leader or at work in church (I make an exeption for Billy Gibbons’s clearly lighthearted use of the term, largely because I’m not certain he has ever self-applied the title). And the blues rockers who typically engage Jim Gaines to produce are not, in general, my cup of tea. So, despite a personal recommendation from Bratcher’s publicist telling me I would likely enjoy the new CD, I almost took a pass. I would have missed hearing a good one.”

“This one starts out with twang 'n stomp just before The Rev. Jimmie Bratcher commences to shout 'n testify, showin' y'all why he's Secretly Famous…but the reasons ain't all that covert, dear parishioners 'cause the ingredients to his juju are plain as day: it's everything, brothers and sisters, it's everything, 'n I'm here to tell ya why. Open yer hymnals to page 666, to Lord A'mighty, Doth the Right Rev Harbor Angels or Demons in His Haunted Soul?, cue the chapel organist to lay down that suspicious smelling cigarette she's a-puffin' on, tell them wayward souls to quit throwin' dice over by the baptismal font, and I'll hip you up to the lowdown.”

“This is a good album, well worth listening to, and there’s not a single subpar track on the record. It’s progressive and hard-hitting, but also pays plenty of homage to the blues, country, and rock ‘n’ roll of days gone by. The Review: 9/10”

“The Rev. Jimmie Bratcher looks like someone you might find on an East Coast college campus an intellectual hipster who reads Kant while sipping white wine. It’s all the more startling, then, that “Call On Me,” the opening track of Bratcher’s fine new album, erupts with a blast of righteously down home funk. It’s as if Ray Charles has been reincarnated in the body of a character from a Woody Allen movie.”

“ The Rev. is an honest-to-gosh man of the cloth. Bratcher brings, as one might expect, a strong gospel influence to his blues music. The Electric Rev., is entertaining and uplifting at the same time as he is one of the more unique and talented characters on the roots music scene today. ”