With Tin Hat

“In a just world, Willie Nelson’s tenderly plangent vocal and the tune’s ("Willow Weep for Me") pitch-perfect, tumbleweeds-tumbling-in-the-breeze arrangement by Tin Hat guitarist Mark Orton would resonate from radios across the country.” — Billboard Magazine

"Their haunting and strangely familiar music... is a soundtrack for the kind of puzzling dream which leaves you sitting awake in the middle of the night..." –The New Yorker

“Forget the definitions, and simply think of the music of the Tin Hat Trio as compelling entertainment, rich with whimsy, imagination and intelligence.” –The Los Angeles Times

“an all-encompassing American tableau with melodies both strange and beautiful.” — Associated Press

“… the group blends elements of jazz, folk and classical chamber music to create unique, yet often eerie compositions that seem like the perfect movie score.” –Billboard

“interweaving Old World Europe with post-modern America, south-of-the-border sensuality with concert-hall propriety, and odd-metered syncopation with deeply soulful grooves, the ensemble has created an original American ethnic music of its own device." —The New York Press

“Mark Orton and his lap steel guitar played the stars out of heaven.” — Dutch Press