3hattrio PITHY Quotes (What they are saying behind our backs)
“The playing is a delight throughout the album, a desert chamber music.” Paul Kerr, Maverick Music June/July 2016
“At times hauntingly chilly and always a hugely atmospheric album, this pulls you into the stark world conjured by the title with a compelling intensity.” 4/29/16 Folk Radio UK by Mike Davies
“An ethereal magic that puts them (3hattrio) in a field of one.” Julian Piper Acoustic Magazine
“A profundo Gregorian sagebrush chant.” Baxter Black, cowboy poet
“The music is constructed with performance precision, a natural presence of melody, not forcing the music but allowing it to seep into your ears the way a good medicine seeps into your body and does some good work and as for the music -- you won't realize its benefits until you patiently give it a few listens.” No Depression Magazine 2016
“Their sound is a veritable bouillabaisse of roots influences from the darkest Appalachia to Western film soundtracks.” Penguin Eggs Magazine 2016
“Nothing,” ‘Tammy’s Sister,’ and ‘Off The Map,’ are all tremendous pieces, musical jigsaws you have to make sense of although there is able assistance in the excellent playing of the band. Paul Kerr, Blabber and Smoke – Scotland
“There can have been few albums that have more perfectly evoked a cinematic vision of the wide open desert spaces and yet at the same time had an almost overwhelming pervasive darkness.” American Roots Music UK
“Utah's 3hattrio depicts their music as "magical realism," a generally literary term describing works that blur the lines between the real and surreal. It's not so much Harry Potter or a world of wizardry; it's more about subtle, unexplainable enchantments that weave seamlessly into everyday life.” The Bluegrass Situation Song of the Week Allison Hussey
"The music is fascinating, with a beauty that is never ostentatious.” Le Cre du Coyote, France
"So far they (3hattrio) have gotten little attention, but this second album will undoubtedly change that. It is certainly one of the most original CDs, which I have heard this year and also very addictive.” Theo Volk for Johnny’s Garden Magazine, Netherlands
“This is really a uncommon CD, an uncommon music, an uncommon sound, even uncommon vocals too...there is a such a charm in this originality , in these so evocative sounds that take your spirit, your soul up in the sky ...it is both traditional and contemporary ...a unique musical approach , a unique musical travel for the listener ...sometimes it is not an easy road but it leads to beauty ...I am really impressed with these recordings ; with the creativity of this band..what a discovery ..hats off guys!” Mike Penard – American Roots Music -- French ISA Radio
“What really grabs me is the energy of the creative moment – It’s just really alive.” Martha Scanlan, singer-songwriter
“A fine collection of songs that takes the American folk music tradition into the desert Southwest as well as I’ve heard it done.” Green Man Review
"You want to give a listen to this creative collaboration. Their hypnotic music enchants; you will listen over and over." cowboypoetry.com
“A strong link with the tradition without ever falling into the didactic. This is a music from the ancient and fascinating, immersed in the American wilderness – Music to be discovered.” Roots Highway, Italy
“I like the sound - very evocative of the desert canyon lands - the vocals are spooky which fits (Glad there is no Indian flute) Keep pushing the envelope.” Ian Tyson- cowboy singer/songwriter
“The music you are creating now is a combination of the timeless and the transient. We are the transient ones in a timeless landscape. I'd say this trio has a good long future ahead of it.” Jim Rooney – Americana producer
“Dark Desert Night” reveals a musical insight of vistas that are anything but deserted – with a light of understanding into the mysteries of our vast American landscape. It is a portrait of who we are, as settlers, and the legacy of who they were, before our guns, germs and steel," Van Dyke Parks- composer
"3hattrio's 'American Desert Music' is an important new angle on a wide body of Music called "Western" - which we've taken too much for granted, and allowed to stagnate. Theirs is a fresh, original sound tied to a love for the desert land…and I'm a desert rat. These guys are sonic pioneers." Tom Russell – singer/songwriter
“What they bring as musical trio is innovative, intriguing and often intoxicating. "Dark Desert Night" remains extremely fascinating! My recommendation!” Eric Schuurmans www.rootstime.be - Belgium
“So there's more to 3HatTrio's act than their intriguing combination of primitive storytelling and awe-struck pictorialism, for it creates something quite a bit different from the straightahead revival act, for their vision is at once deeply rooted and deliberately maverick and individual.” David Kidman, Fatea Records, Great Britain