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Flatlanders: 4 stars from People Magazine
People Magazine Critic's Choice

"[The Flatlanders] are supreme practitioners of an art form shaped over the years by the likes of Hank Williams, Ernest Tubb [and] Waylon Jennings... Listening to them is like watching one of those old Westerns where three strangers ride into town to shake things up. You'll be glad they did."

Flatlanders: A- from Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly

"Wheels is near perfection... with jarringly good songs from three different pens, this is country at its elemental best, equal parts whimsy, pasion and revelation."

Flatlanders: 3 1/2 stars from Rolling Stone Magazine
Rolling Stone

"...crisp and decorous..."

Flatlanders: 3 1/2 stars from Details
Details

"...an oasis for country fans sick of the puss-in-boots mainstream mash of Shania and Co..."

Flatlanders: 4 stars from Mojo Magazine
Mojo Magazine

"Guitars glow, characters shine, egos dim. It's Buena Vista Social Club with banjos (and a musical saw)."

Harp Magazine

"Wheels of Fortune is aces in the good old-fashioned way; because its songs are aces. And the performances live up to them, and then some."

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