Emily Hurd: HOME

"A combination of Janis Joplin and Carol King. I'm never one to compare someone to legends but there is no one out today that can mess with this lady unless I name: Carly Simon, Marcia Ball, or Bonnie Raitt." --The Fresh Music Page

"About equal parts Shawn Colvin (vocal beauty, heartland roots), Tori Amos (pianistic punch) and Maria Muldaur (bluesy buzz), Hurd echoes pop styles, New Orleans jelly-roll and playful Vince Guaraldi light jazz." --The Saratoga Springs Daily

"The songs touch on universal themes of love and loneliness, Hurd belting like Russian-American piano-pop diva Regina Spektor and exhaling the words like hazy smoke rings."--The Chicago Tribune.

"Sure there’s more than a touch of Janis in it, but Emily’s is a more controlled instrument. Maybe that’s what’s so intriguing—sensing that she could belt it out like Big Mama Thornton but she chooses not to." --WXRT, Chicago

"With all due respect to your natural parents, you are the bastard daughter of Lucinda Williams and Van Morrisson."--Jimmy Tomasello, The Old Town School of Folk Music