An assortment of quotes and reviews.

Todd Adelman & The Love Handles
has reached #4 on the National Roots Chart, #1 on the Colorado Roots Chart
and has broken into the AMA top 100 as of Nov. 9, 2009.
THE DAILY NEWS - Pennsylvania
Todd Adelman & The Love Handles, self-titled (Porch
Lantern Music) ✮✮✮½ — Todd Adelman’s 2006 Henry’s
Diner established the Texas native as an up-and-coming voice
on the Americana scene. The addition of the remarkable Love
Handles backing band for his latest self-titled release could very
well make Adelman a star. His songwriting and vocal work
are outstanding, per usual, and those songs get a boost from the
cadre of Love Handles musicians. Special kudos to Bret Billings,
whose work on pedal steel, dobro and lap steel are exceptional.
The ear-pleasing twangfest gets started with keepers
“Sorry” and “Hand Over Your Heart,” and the good times
continue with “Ballad of Jonny Boot,” “Baby’s Gonna Be a
Country Girl,” “Long Road Back Home,” “Where the Party
Never Ends” and “One More Night in Heaven.” Less effective
are “Cry in the Rain” and “It Might as Well Be Me,” but those
middling tunes don’t take away from what Adelman and the
Love Handles have accomplished here. (JS)
THE COLORADO SOUND - Colorado
I’ll call this one now… easily the BEST alternative country
record of the year out of Colorado – and maybe the best altcountry record I’ve heard this past year, period. As I sit and
listen to this record from beginning to end, yet one more time,
what comes to mind is some of the best of Gram Parsons and
absolutely among the best of Ryan Adams “country” records.
Yes, this is heady company to place Todd’s voice and songs in,
but it fits. I am instantly transported to my youth listening
to the Byrd’s Sweethearts of the Rodeo, the Flying Burrito
Brothers and then records like Whiskeytown’s Faithless Street
in the early nineties. Had this record come out about the time
of Steve Earle’s Exit 0 or Dwight’s Lookin’ for A Hit, or early
Uncle Tupelo or Wilco, Todd would be a venerable heritage
name today in the alt-country field. As it stands today, I’ll place
this one high on the shelf of newly discovered lost rare gems
of Americana/Alt-country-rock… it’s really really really that
good. A solid “10.” (Chris K.)
Marquee Magazine - Colorado
Todd Adelman has done it again. In 2006, when he released
Henry’s Diner, this writer called the Nederland-based singer/
songwriter “brilliant,” and said that Adelman was defining
roots folk Americana.
His latest release, which drops this month, titled Todd
Adelman and the Love Handles, follows suit.
Honest, heartfelt and personal, this release showcases, once
again, Adelman’s ability to combine rock, country and folk into
one seemless package that not only gives courteous nods to his
legendary predecessors, from Neil Young to Uncle Tupelo, but
also forges its own path of uniqueness.
The album also features a new backing band behind
Adelman that is as impressive as the songwriting. With Bret
Billings on pedal steel, Don Ambory and Greg Schochet
on telecaster, Beth Amsel on harmony vocals and a rhythm
section of bassist Lee Alexander and drummer Diego Voglino,
Adelman delivers an album that could be one of the best country
folk recordings to come out of the hills of Nederland since Nitty
Gritty Dirt Band threw down tracks at the now-gone Caribou
Ranch Studio.
If you like a little twang with your folk, grab this album.
It won’t disappoint.
“Great songs, great band, great time.”
– Scott Von
“The real thing.”
– Danny Shafer
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