Beatroute Magazine
Review:
“rootsy, authentic, humble and warm”.
Review Date:
2011
Slowcoustic.com
Review:
Favourite Canadian albums of 2010
Review Date:
2011
Ninebullets.net
Review:
Favourite Albums of 2011
The material for the Garage series is culled from various archives of recorded material, drunk jams, house show performances, impromptu collaborations and whatnot.
Review Date:
2011
Americanrootsuk.com
Review:
4.5****
Review Date:
2011
JH Snowboarder Magazine
Review:
If there is any chance in hell to save Country Music and change people’s minds, I believe these guys are our saviors.
Review Date:
2010
Hearya.com
Review:
I like The Sumner Brothers for many of the same reasons I love artists like Justin Townes Earle, The Deep Dark Woods, and Joe Pug...
Review Date:
2010
Lonestar Magazine
Review:
This ain’t no novel, by God, it’s non-fiction. Real, bleeding, pissing, moaning, crying, pleading, questioning, bone breaking, eye-gouging, ear-biting, down in the dirt fighting for your life kind of music...
Review Date:
2009
Americanaroots.com
Review:
The Sumner Brothers - raw, unrefined, primitive, unpolished and gritty...
Review Date:
2009
Skopemag.com
Review:
The new self-titled album from The Sumner Brothers has turned Nashville pop on its ear and offers a snapshot of both what country once was and can still be.
Review Date:
2009
Round The Dial
Review:
Produced (delicately and with obvious respect for the artists’ own inimitable musical identities) by Derek Difilippo and recorded at “Ben Brown’s Cabin” on Galliano Island in B.C...
Review Date:
2009
Songs Illinois
Review:
The Sumner Brothers effortlessly combine all the disparate forms of roots music to create a sound that elevates them to the top of the heap (The Felice Brothers, Chatham County Line and The Avett Brothers are all pushing and struggling not to fall off that same heap).
Review Date:
2009
The Province
Review:
Top 10 Albums of 2008
The sepia tone of the album graphic recalls another time...
Review Date:
2008
Herohill.com
Review:
Top 20 Canadian records of 2008
The Sumner Brothers (Brian and Bob) do a remarkable job of bridging the gap between past and present...
Review Date:
2008
Samantha Parton - The Be Good Tanyas
Quote:
Favourite Albums of 2011
The Sumner Brothers are, in my opinion, the most talented band Vancouver (if not Canada) has seen in a long time...
Quote Date
2008
24 hrs. News
Review:
Favourite Albums of 2011
Their music is about light, though it is not afraid to explore the dark. Their music is about hope, but it does not ignore despair. It’s a mournful Johnny Cash, a repentant Willie Nelson, a reflective Stompin Tom. It’s the power of boozy sincerity and hopped-up honesty, and that, brothers and sisters, I can get behind.
Review Date:
2008
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