Bill Mallonee Press
Americana/Folk-Rock/Country-Alt/Indie-Folk
“…the best folk-rock act nobody’s ever hear of… The intelligence and intensity of Mallonee’s writing has elicited comparisons to Dylan from his loyal underground admirers. Given the consistency and quality of Mallonee’s work over eight albums, he is arguably the first writer since John Prine to make the comparison plausible.”
– New York Press
“The poetry and intelligence of Bill Mallonee’s songs rivals Dylan’s, and the spirituality and inspiration of them is like the timeless hymns. He’s one of my favorite all time artists.”
– Buddy Miller (No Depression Magazine’s Artist of the Decade)
“‘Amber Waves,’ is Mallonee’s 50th. He offers a view of the American Experience that is both grim, insightful and exalted. Delivered with layered guitars, bass & drums, it is an Americana triumph. Mallonee shows no signs of letting up.”
– DownTheLineZine
“He has made 80 albums over 25 years, an amazing catalog. I daresay there’s no musician more consistently brilliant and yet at the same time more consistently overlooked than Mallonee. As prolific as he is proficient, the one time leader of the equally astute Vigilantes of Love continues to fly below the radar despite an ever growing catalogue available solely from his website. Look there and the number of offerings is practically overwhelming, each a worthy acquisition for anyone aspiring to be a completist. Now the focus turns on his latest, the utterly compelling Amber Waves, a collection of rugged heartland anthems that strikes an instant impression. Mallonee — as always — seems incapable of hitting a bum note, or, for that matter, crafting a melody that’s anything less than instantly memorable. Calling Amber Waves an instant classic is hardly hyperbole. The fact is, the same can be said about anything in his vast catalogue. The world ought to start catching up, and Amber Waves is an ideal place to start.”
– Lee Zimmerman/No Depression Magazine contributor
A most recent review of 2018’s forest Full of Wolves by No Depression staff writer Lee Zimmerman can be found here.
“Mallonee’s songs give words to shadowy fears of intimacy, of it’s loss, even of the value of what he feels compelled to do.”
– USA Today
“Dylan-tinged vocal and introspective lyrics that spin out big-picture stories imbued with chilling small details.”
– Billboard
“His dark-night-of-the-soul, trailer park school of songwriting is gripping.”
– Nigel Williamson, UNCUT
“Bill Mallonee… [has] remained fascinated with the shadowy emotional toils and struggles inherent in the American experience, compelling, insightful, [he] continues to probe through Americana rock and roll proving that sometimes the only story worth telling is that of the journey.”
– Rolling Stone
“Killing Floor,” Mallonee’s 3rd album, produced by Mark Heard & REM’s Peter Buck, charts at #27.
– Paste Music Magazine’s “Top 100 Albums of the 90’s.”
“Killing Floor “was recently slotted at #41 in Paste Music Magazine’s “Top 50 Southern Rock albums of All Time.”