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Sep 4, 2012If it's more of an archival release than a necessary one, it's very listenable and catches an eccentric, odd little band of three fine songwriters doing that thing they did--and that they still do.
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Sep 4, 2012The Odessa Tapes shows this was from the start a talented band, one with a clear vision of itself, that was going to Nashville with pride in its performing abilities and material.
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Sep 6, 2012The Odessa Tapes has it all, most tellingly a warmth and intimacy foreign to More a Legend's typically starched Nashville conformity.
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Dec 21, 2012A surprisingly quality recording of an incredible set, The Odessa Tapes plays like what it is: a miracle shrouded in modesty, and an ephemeral moment in time.
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MojoSep 4, 2012This band played their earthly songs with far more gentle elegance than they deploy nowadays in their sporadic revival. [Sep 2012, p.102]
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Sep 12, 2012These slightly older renditions are less polished and dynamic than the Nashville sessions and have a different kind of homespun charm. The 14 tracks here suggest the wide open spaces of Texas (where the studio was located) more than the countrypolitan sophistication of Nashvegas.
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Sep 4, 201214 songs of keening, romantic acoustic music of great seriousness and lightness of being.