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STEVE HAGGARD : REVIEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
CDs & Merchandise Haggard Homepage
"Make Your Move, Steve Haggard's fourth project for Wild Oats Records,
is one of the year's best country albums. Besides being a fine singer,
Haggard
wrote all but two of the 11 songs on the collection. His writing
is intelligent
without being annoyingly clever, and he has a classic country feel for
strong
images and clear narratives. The production is first-rate, and the pickers
convey the kind of back-porch enthusiasm that lifts a song out of the
grooves and into the memory."
- Edward Morris / Nashville Scene (USA)
"This guy is a major talent... Quite simply, Make
Your Move is wonderful.
Filled with fine songs, superb musicianship and Steve's best singing yet,
the
CD marks a giant step forward for "the other Haggard"... the album takes
the listener on a fascinating journey down the highways and byways of
American music... so readers, make your move: Get out & buy
this CD !"
- William Henry / American Music Journal (USA)
"Country music with an edge, physically and emotionally... Steve
Haggard's music evokes feeling and reality, something sorely
missing on the radio today."
- Kyle Christen / Cosmic American Music News (USA)
"What an artist, what a singer, what a talent !...
Make
Your Move
will make you move."
- Pascal Paulin / Country Gazette (France)
"In this depressing Frankie Avalon/Fabian era of country music, artists
with guts and feeling and originality have gotten all too rare. The music
of Steve Haggard has all three qualities... Steve is a damn good singer,
writes first-class songs, and sounds like nobody but himself."
- Timothy Young / Country & Blues (USA)
"The whole concert was a 'feast for the ears' and
thrill for me... the
crowd loved Steve's virtuoso harmonica playing."
- Toni Metzler / CMC Switzerland News (Switzerland)
"Nashville is flooding the market with new talents, who often sound like
they've been produced on an assembly-line... There is rarely a genuine
artist among them. Steve Haggard is one of those exceptions who has
preserved his individuality."
- Gunzburger Zeitung (Germany)
"Thanks for the cut on 'Memphis.' You did me proud !"
- Tom T. Hall (USA)
"Rockin' bluesy country with plenty of punch and grit. It's hard to
describe Haggard's sound... there's a little Gary Stewart influence
in Steve's singing, traces of Gram Parsons, Bob Dylan and Townes
Van Zandt, and a lot of Sonny Terry in his superb blues harp style.
... a real talent and an excellent live performer."
- Vince Montgomery / The Sword (USA)
"Since 1992, I have enjoyed the music, singing and
instrumental work
of Steve Haggard. I was informed months ago that he was recording
Make Your Move, now my anticipated wait for some more good
music has been rewarded... get a copy of this album, and hear the
excellent work of a fully-experienced international music man...
'Genius does what it must, talent does what it can.' Until noticed."
- Ian McQueen / Country Music News & Routes (England)
"We know Steve as a great performer with a splendid voice...
Rough Edge lets us hear him as an excellent songwriter and
a great singer."
- Andre Vanoppen / Radio Maasvallei (The Netherlands)
"Steve Haggard boasts a voice that is cool and impassioned,
well-suited to ruminate on the pangs of regret...
Rough
Edge
spotlights both his vocal and songwriting
talents."
- Walt Trott / Entertainment Express (USA)
"Push Comes To Shove is an impressive collection of emotionally-
charged honky-tonk country guaranteed to please even the most
discriminating tastes... Don't pass this one up. It's terrific !"
- Geri R. Fitchett / California Country News (USA)