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"Woody Pines is a force of nature!"
- Cindy Lamb,  Leo Weekly Louisville KY


"Stick on your pork pie hat, grab a slug of moonshine and cut yourself a rug.”
- Maverick Magazine, March  2010


"Rock solid sexy old time vaudeville hill-billy groove."
- Sxip Shirey of the Luminescent Orchestrii, NYC

“A rollicking, engagingly idiosyncratic amalgam of old-time blues and jug band sensibilities. [The music is] informed not only by squalling harmonica and whumping bass but a conviction that makes them sound about six decades older than they really are. As well as Pines' nasal holler, Zack Pozebanchuk on bass and  Nathan Taylor and  Andy Tubb sharing credits on drums, there are tasty contributions from guest artists including producer Gill Landry on slide guitar. Stand-out tracks include the harmonica and fiddle-driven 'Chew Tobacco Rag' and a compelling rendition of Harlem, a vintage joint-jumper swinging to sax and cornet. It's not all up-tempo stomp, and Pines' Walking Down the Road has overtones of early Dylan in its guitar finger-picking and wistful drawl." -  jim Gilchrist,  The Scotsman  March 2010

"...The new album, 'Counting Alligators', is five original songs, five traditional tunes and one bouncing and rollicking version of Billy Briggs' 'Chew Tobacco Rag'. My latest theme song is 'Satisfied', and 'Harlem' has a horn arrangement that makes you feel like you're sitting in the Cotton Club." - Chris Parton, CMT Nashville TN


"Such abandon never seemed likely here but it was still possible to imagine how, given the right circumstances and maybe a few more glugs of moonshine, Pines and his chums’ energetic roots ’n’ boogie might provoke that response. He name-checks blues and country pioneers such as Big Bill Broonzy and Doc Boggs with both reverence and familiarity, as if they might still be with us – and through Pines’s prematurely careworn delivery and locomotive rhythms, these long gone heroes’ songs seem genuinely part of a living tradition...when they moved into vintage jazz, ragtime and Louisiana-style blues, and especially when Pines produced an amiable take on Satisfied and Tickled Too, they showed a musicality that was easily as memorable as their more rambunctious exploits."
- Rob Adams, The Scotland Herald,  March 28th 2010

"Woody Pines brings that low-key street corner style of performance to his stage show, but with all the polish and seasoned professionalism of a tour-bus-and-green-room rock stardom. If Pines’ elegantly-disheveled fedora and vintage resonator guitar don’t set the mood (both are strongly suggestive of the musician’s mix of ragtime, country blues and lightning-speed folk), the backing band does the trick. Crackerjack musicianship goes a long way toward a band’s greatness, but showmanship seals the deal. Pines, on stage, is an old soul and natural performer, storied and steeped in the best of American music."
- Alli Marshall Mtn. Xpress, Asheville, North Carolina