"Hill country blues on acid. Pretty wild stuff.”
CHUCK HADDIX, KCUR The Fish Fry. Co-author of Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to BeBop- a History”
"It’s all about the blues, baby.”
OMAHA CITY WEEKLY
"The truth is no one sounds like The Billy Bats. You may have heard two pieces before – slide guitar and drums- but not with this kind of groove, not with songs like this.”
STLOUIS.COM
"Some tunes build from a near whisper to a deep growl that could shake pictures off a wall."
INK MAGAZINE
"There’s an Elmore James feel to ‘Crash and Burn’, a Wolf vocal married to a Hooker boogie on ‘Subtle Nuance’, and a Robert Plant lustiness to ‘Kung Pow Chicken’. It’s fat, bassy music with plenty of space in it. They’ve retained the rhythm of the Blues form but dispensed with the histrionic guitar parts. What the Billy Bats have in their arsenal that gives them their own identity is a deadpan sense of humor...”
BLUES MATTERS #51
Duncan Jamieson
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