Press:

“Jeff has his ear to the ground and plays songs for our times, while injecting those classic deep-blues lines we know so well. Push Pilin provides plenty of attitude in Jeff's deep repertoire of classic blues, giving the most cynical aficionado some pause. " Push Pilin" comes out with a blunt hammer, then seduces us with some of the sweetest licks I've heard in a decade or more. ”Invisible Man” hits home, and “Hard To Love” could well up the eye ducts in the hardiest of us. “Down Deep” drowns us in cut-with-a-knife bass. “King of the Jungle” boogies down with great lines anyone living in tough conditions would understand. “God Damn South Carolina” might sum up best the beautiful angst/attitude this CD strives for. This could be one of the most important deep-blues albums of the year.”
Elliott Morehardt - Boston Blues Society

“Jeff Norwood detours from the traditional path of the bluesman and delves into the deep, piney woods of acid-blues and even trance-blues on his new collection of original guitar-pounders. On the one hand this is, as he notes, "a new generation blues recording." On the other hand it would sound right at home in the age of Jimi Hendrix and Big Brother and the Holding Company and Paul Butterfield. ”
Jon Sobel - blogcritics.org/music

“Honorary which honorary belongs to. There latches no two numbers the same on this cd. That makes it also difficult to push them the angles known in one of. Jeff have a heavy jet ear style and on top of a good heavy, harsh full voice. Delta Blues with an own blush.”
Jean-Paul Samyn - Beale Street Blues

"Jeff Norwood tends to embrace traditional Mississippi Delta and Southern/Piedmont styles of blues over anything modern and overtly rock 'n' roll. The Camden-based singer/guitarist breaks new ground on this new solo album, however. Far from being a prim-and-polite set of clean ditties and renditions, Push Pilin' is rough around the edges in a really cool way.
T. Ballard Lesemann - Charleston City Paper

“Norwood’s signature sound is that of a seasoned blues-smith. His mastery of the heart and soul that goes into this style of music is the only thing that can keep this genre alive and kicking, and he is doing his best to fight that slow death.”
Josh McRae - Gravy and Biscuits

“Jeff Norwood has a gnarly guitar tone, a growl in his singing voice, and a gritty sense of humor. He also possesses the chops and feel of an old Delta blues veteran. Norwood returns to the Surf Bar on Folly Beach this weekend in support of a brand-new solo album titled Push Pilin’- a down-to-earth, guitar-based 11-song collection produced by James “Jimbo” Mathus (of Knockdown South and the Squirrel Nut Zippers) at Delta Recording Services in Mississippi.”
T. Ballard Lesemann - Charleston City Paper

“Jeff Norwood, representing Lowcountry Blues Club, began his career performing in small town dance halls and backwoods juke joints. He then apprenticed himself to R&B greats, The Drifters, and later, The Tams, working as road manager, sound man and fill-in band member whenever possible. His new release, produced by James “Jimbo” Mathus, hits the streets this year.”
Don Wilcox - Blues Revue

"Jeff has a unique sound. He does not try to sound like other artists at all. He does his own thing."
"Sunshine" Sonny Payne - KFFA King Biscuit Delta Blues Radio. Helena, AR

“A breath of fresh air from South Carolina blew onto the northeast blues scene the other day. Jeff Norwood and his Gibson SG guitar showed up at The Tap in Haverhill, to play his own style of deep-roots blues. Opening up for the powerful Ten Foot Polecats is no easy task for anyone, but Jeff put his easy-going, confident style to good work!”
Elliott Morehardt - Boston Blues Society Monthly Nov. 2010

"I play real motherfucking blues from the straight. I have been around and learned my shit the hard way down the road in Mississippi and South Georgia jukes from people who invented rock 'n' roll, and I ain't no Charleston white boy wannabe. Fuck that shit."-Jeff Norwood
T. Ballard Lesemann - Charleston City Paper

“If someone asks Jeff Norwood what makes a bluesman, he tells them bluesmen are like Bonzai trees. “The harshness of their existence creates something wizened and beautiful in its deformity,””
Matt Wake - Metromix Greenville

" A one man army!"
Brian Connor - Villanova

“Awendaw, which is named for the small S.C. town where Norwood records, should be part of any serious blues collection.”
Dariel Bendin - Flyin' Under The Radar

“Norwood manages three things on Awendaw: he serves up interesting and engaging song-stories that keep the listener involved; he plays in a style that purists would find little about to complain; and he changes things up enough musically to keep things interesting.”
Bill Kopp - Musoscribe

"Norwood's fresh-faced sound feels more real, less studied, than the efforts of some rougher-edged bluesmen... Instead of worriedly trying his hardest to overtake a retreating "authenticity," Norwood writes and plays what inspires and delights him, and nothing else.
Jon Sobel - BlogCritics Music

"the brooding, murdering, wickedness themes of the Delta blues are fully come to life and reinterpreted feverishly in Norwood’s original songwriting like “Black Dark,” “Save My Wicked Soul,” and the universally themed “Shake.”"
Benjamin "The Harpman" Cox - Juke Joint Soul

"Over raw, repetitive slide licks, Norwood paints the images of his own wandering and soul-searching, and the scenes, happy and forlorn, that he witnesses along the way... Norwood's genuine in his take on the blues, melding the best of life's lows and highs into both his words and finger work.
Stratton Lawrence - Charleston City Paper

“It seems deceptively easy, but the play is all in the person, and the only person who can play it is Jeff Norwood. As humble as he appears, when he walks into a room, something changes, something is different. A bluesman has entered the fray.”
Nick Hilbourn - SC Now

“'AWENDAW' AVAILABLE NOW ONLINE!”
CDBaby.com

“I try to play at cool places," says Camden-based Carolina singer/guitarist Jeff Norwood. "If I got three people in there who wanna hear some blues, that's all it takes. I just go straight for the throat."”
T Ballard Lesemann - Charleston City Paper

"A Palmetto State son of the soil steeped in the sounds of the Mississippi Delta... The music is stripped down, warm and raw, lyrically infused with sexual double entendres involving roosters and catfish and the like."
Jordan Green - YES! Weekly