"Music from the roots where stones and old bones speak while the nightwinds moan and Orion shines eternal like our dreams..."

*Reviews:

Lonesome Highway (UK) Paul McGee: “These songs are full of character and personality, with great hooks and a dynamic rhythm running through the strong melodies. There is definitely a strong influence of The Band that features in the central thrust of the songs. That sense of space in the arrangements that allows all players to express themselves without constraint. Marvellous in the delivery, magnificent in the tight playing. Melvin can sound a little like Willie Nelson in part and the lead guitar has echoes of Mark Knopfler throughout. The fiddle/violin is particularly effective also. Song titles such as Yellow Rose Hotel, Spanish Guns and Aztec Gold give a flavour of the content across the album with a strong Tex-Mex sway, coupled with Spanish influences from along the border towns of the US-Mexico divide. Songs refer to the plight of the Red Indian nation (Wounded Knee), also the slaughter of Buffalo herds (Prairie Ballad), with a collection of bandits, drifters, gamblers, and thieves that pepper these songs of character and colour…” https://www.lonesomehighway.com/music

Musik An Sich- Wolfgang Giese (Germany): “I quickly fall into reveries…enchanted by this wonderfully relaxed and very appealing atmosphere, which is carried, not only by Holden, but also by the lead vocals of Litton and the interaction of the whole band, which knows how to create different moods, be it in the direction of Mexico or in general to old country music, quite wonderfully in ‘Rocky Mountain Woman’, or to the sounds of indigenous peoples, to be heard on ‘Wounded Knee’…there is absolutely no failure within this varied music…” *For the full review: https://www.musikansich.de/review.php?id=25696

Muziekwereld – Valsam (Belgium): “Kicks off immediately with the stunning almost six-minute-long roots number ‘Joaquin Murrieta…’” www.rootstime.be *For the full review: https://www.muziekwereld.com/the_border_band.htm

Blaskans vänner – Micheles Kindh (Sweden): “I as a listener find songs almost like the great American novel…”