PRAISE FOR DAN NETTLES AND KENOSHA KID

“It may be a daunting undertaking to score a true film classic, but Kenosha Kid is up for the task; Steamboat Bill Jr. is a welcome alternative to tired silent film scores, with taste, finesse, and an expansive, playful spirit.”
-Ernie Paik, Chattanooga Pulse 10/16/08

“Kenosha Kid loosens the laces on standard jazz. High art acknowledges pop art, influenced by Louis Armstrong and Charlie Christian, yet eager to strike a Keith Richards pose. The 18 tracks on their newest release are classic cuts played through an Andy Warhol filter and served up Thomas Pynchon style.”
-Joel Weickgenant, Savannah Now 9/18/08

“Kenosha Kid’s jazzy blend of delta blues, bluegrass, avant-garde and indie rock colorfully enlivens the black and white screen while creating the perfect entry point for the jazz layman… Nettles succeeds in eliciting the pathos of the film with compositional wizardry, conjuring his 10-piece jazz-orchestra like an army of reanimated broom handles…”
-Ryan Monohan, Flagpole Magazine 9/17/08

“Creating a spacious, warm vibe that presses against the ear, Kenosha Kid unsheathes delicate but complicated rhythms under busy low end that fights for air with reverb-soaked guitar lines. And even when the tension comes to a head and the going gets gritty, there are still nods to jazz of old, even as the eye gleams to the future.”
-Ian Miller, Independent Weekly 9/17/08

“…an innovative collection of Americana sounds and melodic jazz, which makes the 80-year-old silent film sound like it hasn't aged a day.”
-Joe Scott, Go Triad 9/11/2008

“Piercing melodies - the show-stoppingly pretty, music-major intricate kind that Wayne Shorter and Kenny Wheeler wrote in the '70s - guide this project, and the execution is as devastatingly funky as that of The Meters or Miles Davis' electric bands. Kenosha Kid plays jazz as if Kenny G and Wynton Marsalis never came along to ruin the genre's mainstream and leave its great minds to squawk away in an underground vacuum.”
-Phillip Buchan, Flagpole Magazine 10/03/07

"A Baedeker of music styles, the Athens, Ga.-based Kenosha Kid embraces jazz, klez, textured cinematic thrum, infectious pop melody and rollicking Nawlinz shuffles-all with a stunning sense of patience and flow... reminiscent of a long nose-against-the-window road trip through the flatlands. Music to dream to or get lost by."
-Tim DuRoche, Willamette Week, Portland, Oregon 7/12/06

"Subtle touches of atonality and noise colour what is otherwise almost a folk-music take on jazz; there are some parallels to guitarist Bill Frisell's recent music, but Nettles's approach is even more down-home and approachable."
-Alexander Varty, Straight, Vancouver B.C. 7/22/06

“Something very different… beautiful, thick, atmospheric soundscapes…. The old routines of the song-format have been left far behind, and this trio can jump between rich contrasts… Nettles is no poser: what he plays shows great sense and understanding… Nothing is missing, the inner movie produced by Kenosha Kid while performing is enough to solidify the music.
-Die Welt.De 1/11/2006

"Projector is some kind of as yet unlabeled jazz... are all very finely constructed. The arrangements provide a seamless mix of the written and the improvised… The music flows and never stands still… giving the listener something new and unexpected every other moment. Even after multiple listens, the music still surprises and maintains a strong pull on one's attention... The music is beguiling… Indie-rock jazz lives!"
-Budd Kopman, All About Jazz 10/29/05

"Projector stands on its own, a fluid, lovely blend of jazz into Nettles' masterful compositions and guitar work, featuring a collection of Athens' finest musicians… a great listen all the way through."
-Julie Philips, Athens Banner-Herald 9/15/05