“There is an obvi­ous intent to their music, and a beau­ti­ful for­mal­ity that’s nat­ural, melodic, thought­ful and has a tinge of clas­sic coun­try twang. These are songs a twenty-year-old music fan could lis­ten to with an 80-year-old music fan and both equally enjoy. ”

"When their voices join to begin singing the first verse, all bets are off. The song, in its dark minor key, could be a hundred years old, or 500."

“[The Clay States] have returned to Alabama with a mysterious and eclectic unification of Southern and Western Americana.”