The Gilded Bats Sing Out!

More catch-up around these parts, and The Gilded Bats have done it again. Gone and made an impression. Sing Out! declares:

"The Gilded Bats bear witness to the fact that old-time music is alive and well in the upper Midwest. Great job!"

See the whole review here.

PopMatters adds:

"The members of The Gilded Bats play old time country stringband music with lots of pluck and a boisterous attitude."

See the whole thang here.

And howzabout Americana UK? They say this:

"The Gilded Bats certainly supply this energy and enough grit to prevent their recreation of an essentially historic genre from sounding too polite or like a mere museum piece."

Yup, more to read here.

We do loves our bats.

Catch-up time at Mud Dauber

Time to play catch-up with y'all. The Mud Dauber family has been plenty busy, but we've been busy ourselves, which means that we haven't been telling you about their busyness. Terrible little cycle. So today we'll start with Patrick Bloom, who's album Moses has been steadily working its way through radio charts and positive critical reviews. Here's a list of said busyness since March (adoringly taken directly from his website):

5/23/08 Patrick discusses Moses on website Insurgent Country

5/22/08 Moses reviewed by Gazette

5/20/08 New Moses review on Italian site RootsHighway

5/16/08 Patrick gets rave review from BroadTexter

4/28/08 Moses receives 4 stars from Freight Train Boogie

4/17/08 Iowa City Press Citizen reviews Moses

4/8/08 Moses on Top 20 albums at WGDR, Vermont

4/6/08 Moses debuts at #14 on the Euro Americana Chart

4/4/08 Moses reviewed at Hooked On Music (translated w/ Google)

4/3/08 Moses on Ctrl. Alt. Country '10 Best Albums Of The Moment' (review here)

4/1/08 CD Baby chooses Moses as 'Editor's Pick'

3/20/08 Moses at #10 on the Roots Music Report Folk chart

...that should keep you coyotes busy for a while.