\"[Barn Burning\'s]influence is not from country, but from the country; not of Nashville-inspired Southern country music, but of the rural spaces of New England. And that means that, while there are acoustic guitars, mandolins, dobros, banjos and twangy voices, a different language is being spoken. Is \"New England country music\" a category? Maybe it should be. And Barn Burning would be one of the first and finest examples.\" - Providence Journal

Graham Lindsey: \"In a voice that spits, sneers, howls and hopes, he lays bare beauty and ugliness, rails at his failings, and offers up his heart. Like Dylan, Cohen, Kerouac and Townes, Lindsey\'s relentlessly percussive, consonant verses are calculated and writerly, but they come out in a gush, the better to capture the frantic tangle of his fears and desires. ...the most audacious roots songwriter\'s debut since Gillian Welch\'s Revival.\" -NO DEPRESSION

\"Lindsey ekes out the kind of country music that Nashville forgot, thankfully without pop influence. His voice is as gravelly but earnest as John Prine\'s, and his lyrical stanzas are long enough to make three-pack-a-day smokers faint.\" -Baltimore City Paper