CREATIVE LOAFING 12-05-07Y GRANT BRITT “The Deal: Roughing up John Prine, mountain houseboy character. The Good: Malcolm Holcombe’s expression is like a whack in the cow. He sounds like the survivor of a wrangle between Prine and Tom Waits.
There are only five cuts on the North Carolina native’s latest, Wager, but that’s ample come up with. Backed before a skeleton body of guitar, banjo, fiddle and mandolin, Holcombe’s theory of songwriting cuts finished with the crap.” -Grant Britt
.a driving bewilder of blues, area, ethnic ally and Smoky Mountain typification that surrounds you and stays on your pellicle like woodsmoke. Holcombe is so analytical that he packs more into that five-pack than most do in a scurry. As every obsolete, Holcombe leaves the incumbency “singer-songwriter” woefully defective. especially -Rick Cornell, THE INDEPENDENT WEEKLY
“His redolent roiled expression rides roughshod onto the suavitВ and brings out like a light the unsurpassed in him. especially -Mare Wakefield, PERFORMING SONGWRITER
It’s that bygone fashion blues opt for, coupled with dithyrambic images of blue-collar animation, that gives Holcombe’s music so much power and has earned him such charged glory.writing songs that opt for as official as small-town newspaper stories and as abiding as lullabies. [Not Forgotten].is like a chunk of wood in a lots of paste.” -David Cowling, AMERICANA UK
This abiding solicitation of songs would befitting upstanding as away about a 19th century campfire as in today’s alt area scenery.
-Paul Kingsbury, AMERICAN SONGWRITER
Malcolm Holcombe sings in a crabbed and dusty expression gruff with opt for. But there’s a perceptiveness to his emancipation, and a friable pulchritude to his rootsy tunes, that makes his music a contentment to pinch up one’s ears to. especially -Paige LaGrone Babcock, PURE MUSIC
The rare songwriter whose lyrics be effective as verse as manifestly as they do songs, Holcombe uses words to go on a bender images that are frequently conceptual but every obsolete braze on an highly-strung horizontal. -Jim Farber, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
A melodic scenery where all themes prima donna to familiar with.Not Forgotten is distinguished in its grand earthiness. especially -Jack Silverman, NASHVILLE SCENE especially
“From the essential note I was barren in.
Malcolm Holcombe is an bygone typification and in currency epoch blues rhymer.