This second CD shows true growth in range and depth. It's at times easy smiling listening, at times thoughtful. The band does not try to flash and strut, but it does exhibit fine musicianship.

The debut disc's decidedly polished instrumental bent gives way to raw intelligence and razor sharp insight here with songs that honestly take you far beyond the seemingly bare bones sound and feel of the first play. A musical jewel, you can't be lazy here - this cd asks a bit more of you... happily, you will be richly rewarded. "Town Man" is a wonderfully cynical rocker that challenges the everyman in most of us. "Come On Over" will draw you in and make you a friend. The only cover... Lou Reed's "Venus in Furs"... is a blast... and might as well be a new cut altogether. Better yet, it rests so naturally and comfortably in the middle this great collection that one concludes that Lou himself would be proud... if not a bit jealous. The last two cuts on the disc, "The Ferry" and "Balsam Ridge" will pull at you... These are three musicians who clearly have range and intellect... there isn't a "gimme" on this disc. Beautifully haunting harmonies underpinned by impeccably well woven guitar and harmonica. Three plays and you'll love Ten Ways... and you'll feel like you're a part of this band.

Damn these boys are fine players!!! First time I saw these guys laying down their viscous licks was when I had somehow gotten lost in rural southern Chapel Hill and stumbled into the likes of a golfball shaped space station. Now I'll admit that I was more scared than scared about approaching that space station, but I kept getting lured closer and closer by these continuous sweet soulful sounds that were emanating from inside the "pod", or whatever the hell it was. Once I mustered enough courage to go in and take a peek, I saw and heard one of the most exalted trios that acoustic music has ever seen. Each of the Camel City Drivers on their own were boggling my mind with their excellent abilities, but together they formed something of a transcendent, no, divine quality. That's not something you can learn in the schools. Now I couldn't figure out if these guys were the entertainment for the extra-terrestrial force that may have governed that space station or if their tunes were actually generating the power for that Epcot shaped galactic traveldome. The music was so tight and resonant that I suppose they could have been fulfilling both duties. To make a long story short, I ended up moving into that space station for a year because of the sounds I heard that night coming from the Camel City Drivers. That's saying a lot about these guys and their music because I am generally intimidated by anything of an interplanetary nature. BUY THIS CD!!!!

Reviews can be exercises in showing off word-play, double talk and hideous pap psychology. Like the CCDs' record, this one does exactly what is says on the tin - bull free. This is an thumping, lilting, moving, funny, stomping bundle of driven acoustic songs in which strings are bent, guitar bodies whacked, necks slid and audiences delighted. Brilliant Southern-tinged songs; the real talent here is their abilty to mix outstanding playing with what still seems a raw and simple sound, despite the layers that are really there. Roll the window down and head south at full volume.