Album Notes

"Both on record and in live performance, Ted Drozdowski is a guitarist of spellbinding invention and intelligence. His slide playing shears the skin off your bones, and he can unleash roaring gales of sound. But lyricism and musicality lie at the heart of even his wildest moments. I have never listened to him and not been transported to a strange, beautiful place I'd never been before."
- Anthony DeCurtis, Executive Editor, Tracks,
Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone

"One of the blues most distinctive and exciting stylists. He's a stalwart soloist as a slide guitarist, bringing some contemporary perspective and technical flamboyance to vintage sounds as witness the raw and visceral sund of Jinx Breakers."
- Ron Wynn, The City Paper, Nashville

"Clearly a testifier, not an imitator. The Scissormen's Jinx Breakers is raw, hypnotic and occasionally jarring."
- Jack Silverman, Nashville Scene

"It's rare that an artist can conjure both heaven and hell simultaneously, but the stripped-down Scissormen manage to summon the fire-and-brimstone fury of the blues while taking musical flight toward a custom-made heaven - a place where folks like Robert Johnson, Elmore James, and Junior Kimbrough still throw it down and pack the juke joint every Saturday night. Guitarist Ted Drozdowski's masterful slide playing carries the band's material as surely as if on steel rails: bending deeply here, swooping widely there, and yet constantly threatening, like a thrill, to come completely unhinged at any moment."
- Jonathan Perry, The Boston Globe