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"A rugged, chugging southern soul record... Like Betty Davis or Betty Wright before her, she imbues tracks with shingly, sawtoothed texture, capable of breaking off a high note with a throaty cry or scraping so low and wide that she threatens to put her bass player out of work."
- Billboard Magazine
"Bette Smith puts soul back into fashion ...Between vocal acrobatics performed with disconcerting ease and an intelligently regressive seventies instrumentation, this effective hymn should easily illuminate your day." (translated from French)
- Rolling Stone
“A major new voice in soul music… Brooklyn’s Bette Smith possesses a one of a kind voice, deeply drenched in hot soul of the nearly incendiary Southern type. That voice could rock the biggest of stages and move mountains if it had to… Count me as a massive fan. Smith is the sort of artist that you’ll find yourself following her whole career..”
- PopMatters
"Great… timeless."
- WNYC Soundcheck
"Jubilant!... some of the best of soul blues that this year has to offer."
- Blues Blast Magazine
“Smith’s belated debut taps exquisitely into vintage southern soul with a voice as huge as her Angela Davis afro and a raunchy rasp and scrape that channels Mavis Staples, Etta James and Macy Gray.”
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"The Brooklyn-born soul singer is slaying hearts and minds... an electrifying blend of the gospel Smith once sang in the church with the soul and rock she heard growing up in Bedford-Stuyvesant.... It's Smith's powder-keg voice that carries 'Jetlagger' to glory."
- Paste Magazine
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