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The Maybelles will be playing the main stage at the legendary Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, Upstate NY, July 16 - 19, 2009
"We just love the Maybelles -- memorable songs, great spirit, lovely and lilting harmonies -- plus they're just plain fun! It's great to hear them re-inventing a whole new kind of old-time music."
Marian Leighton Levy & Ken Irwin/Founders Rounder Records
I love bands that are willing to explore new territory. I love the instrumental combination, the old-time real country feel, the close harmonies and the sprightly fiddle playing. I think you all are onto something big.
Dave Higgs - Nashville Public Radio - Bluegrass Breakdown
The Maybelles are a talented trio of young women. Sweet old time harmony vocals and a dynamic string band sound...energetic, hauntingly beautiful, humorous...'Leavin' Town' is a lovely collection SING OUT!
Of all the music given to me by the Be Good Tanyas - my favourite is The Maybelles.
Charlie Gillett, BBC Radio London.
Leavin' Town is a brilliant record....isn't strictly bluegrass, but the reworking of old-time country and jug-band blues is remarkably nuanced.
Edd Hurt feature - The Nashville Scene
A triumph for equal opportunity bluegrassers, never once sinks into mere bluegrass reverence!
Village Voice - Feature 'Not just Bluegrass' by Mikael Wood (Nickel Creek, The Duhks, and The Maybelles.)
Gloriously sensual harmonies, with expert and authentic instrumentality and solid songs. Their style is "mountain music"--Appalachian--with a good bit of bluegrass flavor. Michael Terry, Uncle Calvin's Coffeee House, Dallas, Texas.
Top 10 New Orleans City Life Music Issue (Cover Story)
Celtic tinged, Appalachian old timey spareness...gorgeous... puts them in my Top 10 Folk Albums of the year.
Chuck Eddy as Senior Editor, Village Voice
They've got it all. Good writing. Good voices. Good sound.
Mike Shirkey, Good Folk Concerts/KUAF, Arkansas.
Freshness bordering on wonder....capture's the Appalachian spirit with pristine precision.
Jerome Clark, Rambles.net
Chock full of fun good old fashioned fun!
Performing Songwriter
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Village Voice (Choices)
The Nashville Scene (Feature)
Austin Chronicle Shortlist
Off Beat, New Orleans
New Orleans City Life Magazine (Feature)
Night Flying, Arkansas (Feature)
Fayetteville Free Weekly, Arkansas (Feature)
Lovely County Citizen, Eureka Springs Arkansas
Time Out, New York
San Antonio Express News, Texas
The votes are all in and Jan Bell (guitar) is a WINNER People's Choice Award 2008 for Best Alt. Country Album of the year, Independent Music Awards. The album 'Songs for Love Drunk Sinners' was made in Brooklyn, NYC and was produced by Samantha Parton, of The Be Good Tanyas. Thanks for voting!
(Photo by Susan Storch)