Album Of The Week

"Med sina medmusikanter blir det skör, sårbar, men ändå en stark kedja av låtar och texter. De flesta är sånger av Melvin Litton själv, förutom tre sånger, varav en räknas som traditionell, plattans sista låt, 'Range Of The Buffalo', som perfekt exempel på superstark och folklig tolkning. Peter Seeger, Woody Guthrie, punkbarden Billy Bragg och Townes van Zandt blir i mitt hjärta vad som dyker upp."

- Micheles Kindh / Blaskan -

"'The Dealer' is Melvin Litton’s, a.k.a. The Gothic Cowboy’s, final album, featuring Mando Dan Hermreck on mandolin, along with Sasha Feryok, a fine young talent on fiddle."

- Kenneth Bremer / Blue Desert -

"Along with Melvin Litton's own songs, there's a cover of David Leitch's bluesy brooding 'Cowtown', while the album ends with the traditional 'Range Of The Buffalo', but, given the album's swansong nature, perhaps the most resonant is 'The Last Ride' as he sings 'Feeling old, so old now, cast my shadow 'neath the darkening clouds, see the sun goin' down for the last time, settin' blood red in the ground, I'm on my last ride'. It's a terrific final curtain call on a sterling, if perhaps under appreciated career. 'I can give my breath to a song, I can sing most any time, I can sing for a nickel, I can sing for a dime', he says. Dig deep in your pockets for him."

- Mike Davies / Fatea Magazine -

"I can't call any song my favorite song, they all belong together, and let me sink into this world full of honesty and truth, with all its rough edges, whether it's about love, about the last breath of an old man, very personally about Melvin's sister, 'Sweet Nancy', about getting older, about the Vietnam War or about players, yes, this music lives with great wisdom, which often doesn't mince its words, that's what makes it so sympathetic to me!"

- Wolfgang Giese / Musik An Sich -