““Mark Mathis is a new-folk and Americana singer from North Carolina who crafts thoughtful musical commentaries on life, love and politics. His new solo CD, We Both Was Young, mixes simple but affecting poetry with inspired melodies and warm, acoustic production.””
““Whether it is the low-voiced David Byrne-esque styling on "Sharecropper Takes a Colored Wife" or the Johnny Cash-influenced upbeat rhythms on "Prenup," Mathis has created a fluid CD mixed with emotion and truth.””
“The sound that emerges from We Both Was Young is peculiarly but magnificently both new and old, a collection of musical stories any classically-minded storyteller would spend his quiet summer consuming.”