"Charted #5 earshot! Canada Wide on Folk/Roots/Blues charts November 2010 issue" - Exclaim Magazine (CAN)  "...it actually captures a vibe and a mood, a moment in time that could not be captured had the musicians not all been sitting in a room. I'm not sure if this song was recorded in the above way, but it sounds very "roomy". And I love it." -Craig Norris, CBC Radio 3 [read full review here...]  “A definite star for the future” - Ralph McLean, BBC Radio Ulster  "Canadian Miss Quincy sounds like she was born in a frontier saloon, Your Mama Don’t Like Me, (Self Released - 4 stars) an exotic blend of country, bluegrass fiddles, rockabilly and whiskey warmed by the fire of her mountain cabin where her oddly timeless-sounding album was recorded." - Q Magazine (UK)  "feisty is really not a big enough word for the amount of sass she brings to her music" "...genuinely different" "...lyrics pointed and insightful" "...sounds remarkably like Patsy Cline". - Jeremy Searle Maverick Magazine (UK)  "Miss Quincy has a wonderfully expressive voice and she can also turn her hand to acoustic guitar, banjo and harmonica." "...sassy, energetic and powerful voice." "...compelling listen from start to finish with great songwriting, resourceful singing and varied arrangements." - Michael Hingston, Country Music People (UK)  "Her blend of acoustic roots, blues, jazz and classic country has attitude to burn, her accompanying musicians are effortlessly proficient, her lyrics pointed an insightful and the result is an album that, in an overcrowded market, can lay claim to being genuinely different… 'Record Store' is a delicate piece that shows off a voice with more range and subtlety than you might expect and 'Water and Whiskey' recalls the full, rich sorrow of Patsy Cline. A mighty fine set, then." - Jeremy Searle, Rock N' Reel (UK)  "Miss Quincy is a big voice from a small town. She brings the Wild West to the big city. Whiskey drenched banjo, brass rail tapping bass, saloon door swinging fiddle. There’s a timely song on this CD: Record Store. Serve up another shot of Miss Quincy." - BC Musician Magazine [read full review here...]  "Steering away from the major record labels has allowed Miss Quincy to deliver us the brilliant ''Your Mama Don't Like Me''. The album has a wonderfully crafted blues/country/folk feel, with a variety of instruments all backed up by Miss Quincy soulful voice." - Adam Hardy (UK) [read full review here...] "I didn't think albums like this got made anymore...This is an album that could easily slip into legend, like "The Campfire Tapes" [Michelle Shocked]." - FATEA Magazine (UK) [read full review here...]  "Miss Quincy is a raunchy and sassy young belter and she is probably right about Your Mama, but I have to say that she really works for me! I admit that the more I listen to this little joy the more I think of ladies like Maria Muldaur and Bonnie Raitt but mostly I just cue it up again and enjoy it all over again. What an unexpected delight." -Marco Gandolfi Music News (UK) [read full review here...]  "It’s almost an embarrassment on an Americana website to find that almost every excellent new act that comes to one’s attention is actually Canadian, but that’s simply the way it is. The sassy Miss Quincy, hailing from the northern reaches of British Columbia, instantly joins those ranks with her self-released debut album." - Naomi Koppel, Backroads Music (UK) [read full review here...]  "Tipping her hip hat to earlier times and the rugged northern beauty that has been the backdrop of her life, [Miss Quincy’s] songs are beautifully crafted and she sings with an energy that’s at once fresh and fun and daring - a reflection perhaps of her pioneer family energy, of roaming the Yukon on horseback, living in BC’s oil rig territory, and working her family owned hunting lodge. It’s no surprise that her growing number of listeners are jumping on for the adventure. She’s the real deal and she’s good." - Bettyanne Hampton, Executive/Artisic director North Peace Cultural Centre, Co-founder Vancouver Island MusicFest  "As one of the more popular house concert venues in the Toronto Ontario area you can imagine that I receive many CD’s through the transom to listen to. Lately I spent an afternoon (yes a whole afternoon after 3 times through) listening to “Your Mama Don’t Like Me” By British Columbia’s “Miss Quincy”. Miss Quincy’s songwriting is very strong, with some of the most unique phrasing I have ever heard. Musicians on this release are second to none. I highly recommend you give this CD a listen. If you are in the position to book talent I would strongly urge you to book Miss Quincy……"I plan to” - Don Howard, Caledon House Concerts  "You don’t have to try to hard to get to like Miss Quincy even if she is brash, bold and seemingly constantly drinking. Perhaps she is the perfect person to take home to mama; or, at the very least, her latest album exhibiting exceptional roots music certainly is. -Slavko Bucifa (UK) [read full review here...]  "Miss Quincy evokes the clarity and affection of early Dolly Parton rather than the bastardised modern day genre known as Americana." -Bluesbunny (UK) [read full review here...]  "This is an of-the-moment cold time take on old time music that could well make Miss Quincy a hip name to drop in the future. She has a strenuous, forceful voice that has character and carnivale clarity. The plaintive songs are rooted in strong woman blues, vaudeville vehemency and string band sanctity...sounds like it should have been played in an Alaskan mining camp in the 1890's or in a cabaret in Berlin in the 1930s." - Lonesome Highway (Ireland) [read full review here...] The Northern Sky "Recalling the heyday of the great blues women of the 1930s, Miss Quincy creates music from another era entirely, yet loses none of its contemporary edge. The title song, Your Mama Don't Like Me, a jazz-infused bar room foot-tapper of an opener, shows precisely where the rest of the album is going with a whiskey-soaked vocal performance of a seasoned barfly. There's a sense of the vaudeville in some of the compositions; dramatic, almost theatrically so, each song infused with a gypsy spirit and a healthily carefree attitude." -Allan Wilkinson, Northern Sky (UK) [read full review here...]  Dutch review from The Netherlands -Johan Schoenmakers (NL) [read full review here...] THENEWSPIN.CA "Considered one of The New Spin's Top Underground Canadian Artists of 2009" -Dashiell Brown www.thenewspin.ca  "Her songs still ring in my mind, and her gorgeous voice and phrasing is absolutely memorable. Her pieces are tough to sing and play, to say the least... yet she pulls them off consistently; and seemingly, effortlessly. Audiences everywhere simply adore her." -Cheryl Hodge Vocal/Theory instructor Selkirk College, HMMA nominee Green Man Music - "A wonderfully strange beast maybe, but one that seems to covertly win the listener over by use of it’s infectious charm, musical dexterity and above all massively original content." - Green Man Music (UK) [read full review here...] The Music Critic "Canadian roots songstress carries on her upbeat spirit that makes nods towards jazz, gypsy and melodrama in an intriguing mix of styles...arrangements that hark back to the hot dance clubs of the 20's and credit where credit is due, she pulls it off with considerable aplomb...the balance of vocals and music just right, the results are stunning...Without question, the talent is there..." -The Music Critic (UK) [read full review here...]  "boasts a virtuoso vocal performance" - Rich Morris (UK) [read full review here...] Beat Surrender "No doubt the “voice” is the star of the show for me but that’s not to take anything away from the songs themselves, clear and uncluttered arrangements provide the structure to a range of styles with a warm vintage feel" -Simon (UK) [read full review here...] 
"If I had a say in the matter... I would appoint "Miss Quincy and the Ramblers" official band of the Peace Country. Maybe it's hard to explain, but if you have seen them perform before you know what I mean. The energy and enthusiasm of the Peace, with songs about The Peace Country and stuff that I feel only Peace Country folks really understand!" -Russell Eggleston, Publisher Northern Groove (CAN)  "Miss Quincy ain’t just another pretty face with a guitar. Did I mention she can sing? Her voice is a welcome change from the over-produced, synthesized female drones filling commercial airwaves these days. It has character and bite, like a good cigar." - Markham Hislop, The Calgary Beacon (CAN) [read full review here...] |
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