reviews for 'Adams Hotel Road' and 'Couldn't Get Along'

"From the beautiful opening track, "Least Most Wanted" to the closing track "('ll Tell the) Cows" every track is a gem……Adams Hotel Road may be the best Alt.Country album of the year" -Henning Kleiven The Rural Route

"Frog Holler has evolved into a sprawling, genre-bending sextet……….embraces regret and melancholy with such poetic grace that his aches and pains are somehow oddly uplifting" -Jim Musser No Depression

"Frog Holler's second release lands at the top of the stack. It'll stay there awhile too, this six piece (plus guests) from southeastern Pennsylvania pulls off a compelling, personal set of songs, and the album is cohesive while essaying styles from bluegrass to modern rock. It's all good." -Dan Aloi MoMzine

"This is one of the loneliest records (Adams Hotel Road) I've heard in awhile……..beats most by a country mile." -Gus T. Williker The Double Wide Hayride Show

"where a loud electric guitar happily exists with banjo and mandolin ….with scratchy guitar and fiddle low down together. The album succeeds this way, with old and new, abrasive and laid back, exuberance and exasperation, soulfully held together." -Andy Turner Country Standard Time

"The album's well-textured blend of country and rock frames the finely wrought and often sweetly melancholy songs of acoustic guitarist and main singer Darren Schlappich" -Nick Cristiano The Philadelphia Inquirer

"…both bitter and sweet; it goes down like that first glass of lemonade in the blaring August sun." -Brian Howard Philadelphia City Paper

"If Son Volt and Whiskeytown really do split up, don't fret, Frog Holler are more than ready to fill in their footsteps. And oh boy, what a wonderful world-weary voice Schlappich has to add to the songs……a wonderful ride down Adams Hotel Road." -Markus Rill Insurgent Country Homepage

"He sent me a copy of their self-released Couldn't Get Along right after the first edition of Modern Twang came out, and I was completely bowled over." -David Goodman Modern Twang

"Left-handed acoustic guitar player and singer/songwriter Darren Schlappich leads his band with vigorous lyricism and downhomecountry styling……Their laid-back instrumental exuberance and yingyang songcraft lead the listener down a dirt-road of melancholy insight and kick-drum rock and roll that satisfies on several levels." -BJ Weikert The Posh Rail

"Frog Holler released one of the best albums in Berks(County) history with Couldn't Get Along……Frog Holler has taken it's music to a new plateau. Adams Hotel Road is simply a great album." -Jim Speese Reading Eagle/Times

"Frog Holler is the best band without a record contract." -Jesse Lundy New Park Entertainment

"The insurgent country scene has been beat to death but there's still gems to be found here and there and one of them is the Philly area's Frog Holler whoose cd "Adams Hotel Road" (Record Cellar) is both beautiful and deeply moving" -Tim Heinley -Northeast Surfnews

"Vocalist/songwriter Darren Schlappich has filled this album with tunes worth hearing and his bandmates provide an outstanding ensemble effort in support." -The Durham Herald-Sun

"(surprise, surprise) beats the hell out of most major label entrants in the alt. country stakes." - Chris Nickson- Folk Roots Magazine (UK)