Jerome Clark has posted a fantastic review of the Close Kin project on the Rambles.net site.

Rambles.net is your best source on the web for reviews of Folk, Roots and Traditional music.

Read his review at:

http://www.rambles.net/va_kin11.html

"Brilliantly imagined and movingly executed, Close Kin is a disc to which I have returned on many occasions since my initial listening. It has yet to wear out its welcome. Let us say it isn't the sort of thing you hear every day. Or every week or every month or every year."

"very few recordings have sought actually to fuse old-time and bluegrass styles. Close Kin does it with dazzling success."

"I could go on to rave about some of my other favorites ("Walk Along John to Kansas," "Bound for to Leave," "Seven Cent Cotton, Forty Cent Meat" and more), but I'll simply encourage you to find out for yourself. I will tell you, however, that Close Kin is a masterpiece."

Jerome Clark, Rambles.net