"rusty belle...this is some clever shit...clever both musically and lyrically...if that's all there were to it, you could leave it. but it's like clever with a sledgehammer and a knife. i love it."-Chris Smither
"...a band that can hand you your ass or make you miss your mom."
-tom friedmann, the message
"one of the more interesting bands to come into my periphery in a while. They're a little bit country, a little bit rock'n'roll, a little bit old-timey and a whole lotta weird. but in a good way. [(rusty belle) mashes genres as if they were tasty little sonic potatoes." -dan bolles, seven days
"rusty belle has a curious, compelling habit of coaxing very different, even huge, sounds out of a relatively small stable of acoustic instruments. Some tunes offer harmonies reminiscent of '60s folk, others country blues, and still others a plaintive swinging melancholy. the common thread is the brother/sister vocalizing of matt and kate lorenz, a unified presence even when things get cacophonous. influences abound, but there's not really anything else exactly like rusty belle." -james heflin, the valley advocate
"...a band that can hand you your ass or make you miss your mom."
-tom friedmann, the message
"one of the more interesting bands to come into my periphery in a while. They're a little bit country, a little bit rock'n'roll, a little bit old-timey and a whole lotta weird. but in a good way. [(rusty belle) mashes genres as if they were tasty little sonic potatoes." -dan bolles, seven days
"rusty belle has a curious, compelling habit of coaxing very different, even huge, sounds out of a relatively small stable of acoustic instruments. Some tunes offer harmonies reminiscent of '60s folk, others country blues, and still others a plaintive swinging melancholy. the common thread is the brother/sister vocalizing of matt and kate lorenz, a unified presence even when things get cacophonous. influences abound, but there's not really anything else exactly like rusty belle." -james heflin, the valley advocate
