Alabamian Adam Holt is quickly building a following that extends throughout the South and beyond… This CD is loaded with well-penned songs spiced with great guitar riffs and excellent vocals. It’s great music to just cut loose to.
Could you imagine the Beatles’ "Blackbird" covered as a country-blues-rock song? I’d hate such blasphemy. But having heard a short clip from Adam Holt’s brand new CD, This is Adam Holt, now feeling it quite natural, as if the world was waiting just for this. The album seems to contain the very best of Adam’s works of the last three years. Every track is a potential hit ("Someone to Love", the opening track, excellent acoustic blues "Six Strings Down".
Some say Adam is the best you’ll find between here and Mobile. His sound is thick with soul and heavy with talent – a blending of blues and country with a hint of jazz…With each song, it’s easy to imagine Holt and his band jamming in a field of kudzu somewhere in Alabama with the haze of dusk behind them.
"This is Adam Holt" is a thoroughly accessible album, but not at the cost of intensity or sincerity.