"With Culture Canute & The Rockstone Players’ self-titled album, you get a healthy dosage of the real thing... The album they’ve created together is a whopping 20 tracks worth of reggae and dub. With the straight reggae songs, Canute’s sweet, lover’s rock voice shines, while the dub versions of these songs spotlight the trio’s instrumental skills. Although Canute has a pure, Gregory Isaacs-like voice, he rarely sings about love and romance... (Ganja Herb) is sung like a love song to the drug... Yes, you can find reggae music everywhere, but if you’re out for something a little more authentic, a little less overtly commercial, Culture Canute & The Rockstone Players will give you plenty of the good, real stuff.... (Dan MacIntosh has been a professional music journalist for 30 years and his work has regularly appeared in many local and national publications, including CCM, CMJ, Paste, Mean Street, and Spin.com)"
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"This self-titled release by Culture Canute & the Rockstone Players definitely has an old-school roots reggae aesthetic... Canute is quite faithful to that old-school reggae perspective on earthy, spiritually minded offerings such as “Straight Safe Line,” “Lift My Spirit,” “Whom Shall I Fear” and “Peace of Mind.” Anyone who fancies the classic roots reggae of artists like the Mighty Diamonds, Sugar Minott, the Abyssinians and Burning Spear should have an easy time getting into this album (which often has an ethereal and very mystical quality).... Canute’s album doesn’t pretend to point reggae in any new directions; he is old-school all the way, and fans of 1970s/1980s Jah music will find it to be an agreeable and pleasing listen.  (Alex Henderson is a veteran journalist/music critic whose work has appeared in Billboard, Spin, The L.A. Weekly, Creem, HITS, Jazziz, JazzTimes, CD Review, Skin Two, Black Radio Exclusive)"
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