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"Jason Fickel is the hillbilly Elvis Costello wearing Donovan’s boxers.” - Nicholas Markos, Jordan |
"Blues to the bone...The album showcases to superb effect Fickel's slide
and electric guitar playing, acoustic finger-picking, and soft heartfelt
vocals..."I Know the Saints," "Come Find Me Sleeping," and "Can't Live No
Place" take the listener somewhere else maybe a land alive with swamps and
creatures and spirits yet unmet...It's difficult to avoid a personal
connection to his music..."
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Somerville (Mass.) Times |
| "Jason Fickel learned his craft while playing and traveling with several blues masters down south. They seem to have taught him a thing or two. The offspring of his knack for blending straight-ahead blues with folk and an upbeat sound, is his newest release Kerosene Cologne. This is pure Americana..." more - HalfSquare.net: |
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"He blows my socks off. Imagine Piedmont blues filtered through the eyes and ears of a thoroughly modern songwriter. That's what this guy brings to the table. And what a picker - he apprenticed under James “Son” Thomas and Othar Turner."- Kit Malone, Fractured Folk Showcase |
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“Fickel's brand of folk blues is a must hear. He's a very talented singer-songwriter as well as a fantastic guitarist and he really can pick!” - Zorba Rose, The Hillbilly Happy Hour |
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"Your CD is FAB-U-LOUS...and i do NOT use the f word lightly...I looove 'come find me sleeping' and 'most of all'" - Jacques "thehaitianfirefly" Fleury |