About Follow That Trail of Dust Back Home
What people are saying about Hooverville:
"Hooverville offers wound-up country and down-home bluegrass accompanied by Hank-esque balladry all played out against a backdrop of drinkin’, lovin’ and killin’, like good country should."
The Independent, Bryson Strauss
"Would make the Carter Family proud, RL Burnside shimmy, and Hank Williams raise his glass."
PopMatters
"This Hooverville music lies at the intersection of the Stanley Brothers of the late ‘50s, the Louvin Brothers, early Johnny Cash, the Carter Family, Alice & Hazel, and a little sprinkle of those two remarkable Gram and Emmy Lou records. It takes guts to sing. These guys...have guts. Their singing is real and true. They apply their voice to these lovely, crafted songs they’ve written. This is old-time country, the music Jimmie Rogers invented and the Carter Family developed and Hank Williams perfected – and which official Nashville seems to have garroted. Vocal old-time music is alive and well."
The Old-Time Herald, Bill Hicks
"You'd swear blind that some of this vintage country, folk and bluegrass must have been plucked from somewhere between the wars. "
Americana UK
"One of the most popular of the Triangle's country music bands...explore such traditional Southern themes as rambling, lost love and murder. While their primary influences stem from the 1930s, their arrangements bear the stamp of more contemporary styles."
The News and Observer, Jack Bernhardt
"Hooverville rides the top of the wave of the North Carolina roots music scene...Along with songwriters Gillian Welch and Norman Blake, Hooverville delivers songs that seem to be pulled directly from the diaries of southerners long gone. Americana music is safe and warm in Hooverville."
Steve Gardner “Topsoil” on WXDU