...The “drops of honey in California” finely move between blues, swing, jazz, and atmosphere flashes of soul. All this mixed with music and joy... - Michele Manzotti, Il Popolo del Blues (Firenze, IT), Ilpopolodeblues.com
...An amalgam of blues, jug band sounds, vintage jazz, rock-n-roll, and classy R&B. Good timin’ music par excellence... - Norman Darwen, Blues & Rhythm - The Gospel Truth (Leeds,UK), Bluesandrhythm.co.uk
...The California Honeydrops, from Oakland, are the most refreshing act to roll down the blues highway in some time. Few groups before them have melded so many strains of African American music into such a seamless whole... - Lee Hildebrand, Living Blues Magazine, Livingblues.com
...Oakland’s The California Honeydrops, find themselves firmly rooted in the African-American music tradition...unique arrangements make their debut CD SOUL TUB!, hard to place in genre and time. “Miss Louise” jives like a lost Chuck Berry with a soaring trumpet line...”All You Got To Do” delivers some sad soul with off-kilter harmonies straight from the pews... - Ali Green, Elmore Magazine, Elmoremagazine.com
...The California Honeydrops!They are the bomb, and I am the lucky one who gets to introduce them to a national audience. They will make me sound good. It is a very cool disc... - Bill Wax, Proprietor of Low-Fi’s Bar & Grill, Sirius/XM, “Juke Joint” w/ Bill Wax (M-F, 3-6pm Eastern), Request line:1866-267-0454
...The California Honeydrops music is pleasure between the tradition and soul music... - Silvano Brambilla, “Juke Joint” Radio Citta Bollate (Milan, IT), www.radiocittàbollate.it.
...THE CALIFORNIA HONEYDROPS are an amazing band ! I like this fresh mixture of jazz, blues, soul in all the CD. Soul tub is CD of the week for my weekly blues radio show... - Marc Loison, “Sweet Home Chicago” , Radio 666 (Bonnemaison,FR), http://blues.radio666.com
...within 30 seconds of airplay of #2 “Rain”- phone lines went crazy!... - Rose Robinson, “Blueslady’s Time Machine”, KFAI, Minneapolis, MN, www.kfai.org
...Honeydrops getting da ship played out of it! Good shit!... - Robb Morrison, KTHR, Wichita, KS
...a refreshing change of pace from the norm… .- Leroy Alvarez, WNMC, Traverse City, MI
...Great stuff, I love it!... - Roger Gatchet, KVRX, Austin TX
..Fantastic recording... - Dave Watts, WORT, Madison, WI
...Oh, yeah... - Norma Martinez, KTEP, El Paso, TX
...out standing disc... - AJ Ketchum, WRFG, Atlanta, GA
...Great music! I want to see this band “live”... - Greg “Doc” Lefebre, WGMC rochester, NY
...We were lucky enough to host The California Honeydrops in July. We were astonished by their amazing performance, not to mention attendance. It was a rocking house! We will happily host them again... - Erik Siebert, Yoshi's Jazz Club, Oakland, CA, http://www.yoshis.com
