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"This album is easy to describe - superb... This is a modern project steeped in traditionalism, it is sort of at the point where John Prine meets Jimmie Rodgers with 13 story songs written by lead vocalist Rick Rowland. Rowland has a great voice and a real feel for traditional music as do the rest of this Washington, DC based band.
Sven Abow plays effective drums whilst Eric Leifert keeps his upright bass tight. Riley McMahon is a real treasure playing guitars, mandolin, banjo, lap steel, harmonica and organ and singing backup as though he were living and playing seventy or so years ago." -- Pete Smith, Country Music Round Up Magazine, England

- Country Music Roundup Magazine

"I like my country music raw I’ll take Keith Urban once in a while, but I’ll listen to Hank Williams’ Low Down Blues over and over again. One Left’s "Songs from the Wound" has Hank’s stripped-down cool. From the first fiddle-like-a-freight-train-comin’ of “Adios Mi Corazon", One Left reeled me in. Okay, I thought, that song rocks like a Bakersfield roadhouse, but can these guys keep it up? Absolutely.

Singer Rick Rowland has the fitting whiskey-soaked drawl for this kind of music. He also wrote every tune on Songs from the Wound, and he pens straightforward lyrics that are twists on familiar country themes.

Too often, I listen to the local radio stations and wonder whatever happened to the traditional country music I like. I was beginning to figure maybe it was a figment of my imagination, a fusion that only I could hear of the Clash’s “Brand New Cadillac” and that old Waylon Jennings record of my dad’s.

Songs from the Wound is a true find, a CD that’s real close to my elusive ideal. You want to get back to the roots of country? Forget Nashville. Try a disc like this, hardcore backwoods sounds by way of Brooklyn and Washington, D.C. " -- Chip Withrow, The Muse's Muse
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- Muse's Muse

"I'm very impressed, every song on the record is excellent. From the songwriting to the vocals, and the boys in the band couldn't be more dead on.... They're the "gravy"! That's real excellent playing!

I never like to compare artists and always try to find everyone's unique individual slice.... So, with that said can't help but feel and hear a lot of (Lou Reed, Hank, Kris, Earle, Gram Parsons) in your vocals and songwriting... and that's said as I'm holding a mug of beer up in your honor. Great New Record! Keep It Up!" -- Teresa Hamilton, Program Director MOXIE Radio

- Moxie Radio

“The CD “Songs From The Wound“ is a tribute to the song writing of lead singer Rick Rowland & the musicianship of this Independent Band & their unique sound, a great CD“ -- Slinga's Independent Artist Showcase 88.9 WYN FM. MELBOURNE.

- Slinga's Independent Artist Showcase

"One Left is a special singer, and his way to present his songs is also special. Maybe I'm an old freak as remember when the STEREO SOUND entered the country music, and the different studios did all they could to impress the listeners. I donít think One Left wants to impress anybody with his music set up, but he is an artist as have ear for the small things as mean a lot... it's real good and awake attention. Artist One Left will be a pleasant surprise for my listening audience, and I can't nearly wait to present (them)." -- Dann Hansen. Roskilde Radio, Denmark

- Roskilde Radio

“Upright bass, mandolin, fiddle, banjo and lap steel « the third production of the Washington, D.C. band One Left is a traditional one... Lead singer Rick Rowland wrote all of the songs, and his songwriter friend Rick Kanton helped out on a track... Rowland jokes that he hopes one day to sing as well as Kris Kristofferson although he may be "aimin' high".

The songs tell the stories of life, and the lyrics have depth and substance. They remind of songwriters like Steve Earle or John Prine. Examples? John Killinger tells the story of someone whoÃs been on the streets fending for himself since the age of twelve. Cheap Hotels gives testimony of the straight road into the bottomless pit of booze and cheap hotels after a great love has ended. Other titles, from Tonight Put A Ribbon In Your Hair to True LoveÃs So Hard To Lose or Every Dream I Dream are songs about relationships, but with lyrics that go far beyond the general and superficial “I love you and you love me.“ -- BRUNO MICHEL Country Music Journalist, Switzerland (Translation by Ruth Boggs)
- Bruno Michel

**** "Take the style of, say, a John Prine, or the late Townes van Zandt, and hook it up with a musical backing circa the era of Hank Williams, and you've got this one dialed in. Take rock solid rhythm, embellish it with McMahon's strings, add some guest piano and fiddle icing to complement the flavour of Rick Rowland's writing, the main ingredient, and pop it into the changer for a tad over 46 minutes. Presto! A baker's dozen, 13 slices of primo Americana." Don Grant, Freight Train Boogie - Freight Train Boogie