combines the grittiness of Rolling Stones take on blues/rock, silky-smooth black-gospel harmonies with pop-sensibilities that makes you sit up and take notice.

…A timelessly beautiful voice accompanied by a stunningly gorgeous woman stuck in a world of soulfully seductive sound.

…The album (Talkin fishbowl blues) is an implicit statement of it’s own that however you slice up American roots music, those roots come in several shades.

Top-level talent

…Manhattan-via-Austin super-side-woman Esther melds roots. pop and R&B in a way that Lucinda Williams, melissa Eheridge and Sheryl Crow never could on their best days.

…Every track stands alone, a tower of singularity and purpose. There is no repetition and any time for displacement of time or rhythm in a song on this album (Talkin’ Fishbowl Blues).

…some of the catchiest songs on one record that I’ve heard in a long, long time.

…Talkin’ Fishbowl Blues shows many facets, but it’s all one shiny diamond.