A bear of a man he can be ferocious on the guitar but his bottleneck style and use of sustain reminded one of Zoot Horn Rollo’s instructions from the good Captain.
Americana UK
Hughes is a guitarist first and foremost mixing raw blues, acoustic slide and electric to excellent effect ... gritty, raw and affecting with echoes of the Texas dust, fuzzed up psych and country and the low moan of the deep south.
The Mad Mackerel
Craig Hughes has placed himself firmly in the forefront of Raw, Straight Forward Blues.
Blues Underground Network - 2011
Craig Hughes kicks ass.
New Music Scotland
... Scottish alt-bluesman Hughes' debut album is a caustic, fuzz-laden, lo-fi affair with gritty acoustic
slide aplenty. Arresting.
Guitar & Bass Magazine
This kind of blues isn't for the faint-hearted ... it's as if a Blues line-up of Black Sabbath had decided to play
Tom Waits with a hint of Velvet Underground.
Blues Matters! - 2010
This is simply a brilliant album!
Loud Horizon
... thought provoking lyrics ... pure acid emotion ... haunting.
stillgigging.com
...if Quentin Tarantino was a blues singer, this is the kind of stuff he would be putting out
Blues Underground Network - 2010
Craig Hughes' angry, dark take on life will appeal to those who have open ears ... well worth checking out.
bluesinthenorthwest.com
Blues Music the way it was meant to be played, down and dirty, no prisoners taken.
The Blues Report
...world-weary vocals, and a bottleneck guitar style that draws on the greats ... Son House, Muddy Waters,
Blind Willie Johnson ... Alt.Blues lovers can buy with confidence.
Blues Matters! - 2009
Imagine RL Burnside was deported to Glasgow for his sins. Might well have sounded like Craig Hughes.
Brilliant.
Peter McGee (online review)