Lonesome Rhodes & the Good Company

These Seattle-via-Bellingham crooners make country-rock, but they are far too broad to be called “alt. country”. For example, their song “Oh Sweet Death” has a pace and breeziness to it like a 70s country song, or a folksier Beatles. But the melodies are laced heavily with Beach Boys-esque summery pop. Elsewhere, on “Sunshine On My Mind”, they craft the kind of slow-drag country-folk Neil Young is famous for, which winds up sounding like a very polished Palace Brothers. Though it’s mainly the project of Spook the Horse’s Brian Pake, he’s often backed up by a small, rootsy orchestra, consisting of “as many friends and musicians as possible”.
- BRIAN J BARR (Seattle Weekly)

SEATTLE SOUND MAGAZINE (4/4 STARS) * The debut from Seattle-via-Bellingham country crooner Lonesome Rhodes and his vast collective of whiz kid musicians aims high - harmony-filled, Neil Young-inspired folk, drenched in piano and electric guitar. For the most part, Rhodes (aka Brian Pake of local indie rock bastion Spook the Horse) and company deliver, especially with languid ballads like "Effort" and harsher, grittier tunes like "Sidetracked" and "Frame of Mind." Rhodes is at his best when he's at his darkest - and his lowest. His stark, melancholy whispering on the aforementioned "Frame of Mind" and dusty, Rocky Votolato-sounding rasp on the title track are stirring, but it's "This Old Soul" that really stuns - a haunting, instrumental ballad led by a desolate piano melody.
-KATIE SAURO (SSM)