Freakwater Feels Like the Third Time

Included in Q's "Best Alt.Country Albums Of All Time" - "...This is where Janet Bean really exposes herself as the perfect foil behind and between Catherine Erwin's battered storytelling and stacatto guitar."
"...There's a lot of comfortable sorrow lacing the lyrics, and also an abundance of those priceless one-liners that country radio stations use to advertise on billboards..."
"...The close, urgent harmonies and spare instrumentation draw a straight line from here way back yonder to the Carter Family....Only on the beautifully wistful 'You Make Me'...does Freakwater let its hipster guard down, slowly unfolding a tune so lovely it's a wonder they ever let it out of the studio."
7 (out of 10) - "...lash out harmonies that would sound in place on a Carter Family record, such is their affection for their source music. But the themes are a bit different: where their ancestors would recommend God-fearin' ways, Freakwater are bummed-out and bleary-eyed....Ace songs, the lot of them."