Lonesome Coyotes: Press

"The Lonesome Coyotes [are] Knoxville’s premier purveyors of face-down-in-the-parking-lot, barbed wire-around-your-heart honky-tonk music..."

Jack Rentfro

"A Coyotes sighting isn't exactly rare, but it is few and far between around East Tennessee. Given the nature of the classic country/Western swing sound and the Lonesome Coyotes' long association with the East Tennessee music scene, it's a beautiful thing when there is one."

Steve Wildsmith

"[The Coyotes] can play almost any type of music and put their own unique spin on each song..."

Stephanie Edwards

"I saw them open for Asleep at the Wheel some years ago, and though Asleep at the Wheel put on their usual first-rate show, the Coyotes committed the unpardonable sin of upstaging the headliner."

Glenn Reynolds

"The Lonesome Coyotes did something strange to Knoxvillians in the 70s, and the town never quite forgot...The band's 2005 release 'Just Like New' reflects as much. Not only can they still rock and still swing, but they've expanded to embrace a broader range of sound, adding more blues, and really stretching out the percussion...[And] there's still the strange and wonderful energy that keeps so many personalities in step."

Amanda Mohney

"A mesmerizing variety of western swing, honky-tonk and country music..."

"The Coyotes' 'Just Like New,' which was quickly put into rotation on WDVX-FM, 89.9 and 102.9 shows off a more intricate sound that’s still anchored in the country rock of Gram Parsons, the folk harmony singing of The Byrds and the Western swing of Bob Wills."

Steve Wildsmith

"As someone once said, it is sweeter the second time around, and that holds true for the Lonesome Coyotes"

Jan Hearne

"Anyone charmed by the sound of Junior Brown, Asleep at the Wheel or any of the great Western swing bands should check out Knoxville's Western swingsters and rockers Lonesome Coyotes."

Wayne Bledsoe

"The Lonesome Coyotes, a musical mainstay of Knoxville’s Cumberland Avenue circuit during the early 1980s...reunited and celebrating the release of its second album — more than 20 years after its first!"

Jan Hearne

"East Tennessee is preparing for an invasion of a pack of coyotes this weekend, but they're not after livestock, pets or trash. And they come with gifts -- brand new music...From the opening track, a rollicking cover of Lefty Frizzell's 'Shine Shave Shower,' the music is audio gold. Horton's rich baritone still kicks like a shot of fresh moonshine, and when it blends with Longmire's honey-sweet alto, your legs start to do things you can't quite explain. Add Barron's steel guitar and Qirko's electric six-string to the mix, all of it anchored by Turner's bass and Klein's utility work on the drums, and...you're ready to grab the nearest partner and make like a cowboy stretching his legs in a Wyoming watering hole after a long ride on the trail....[and Maggie Longmire's] 'L&N Lullabye' might just rank up there with one of the best train songs ever written."

Steve Wildsmith

"When the Coyotes -- Steve Horton and Maggie Longmire on guitar, singing baritone and alto respectively; lead guitarist Hector Qirko; pedal steel player Jay Barron; drummer Doug Klein; and bassist Stan Turner -- flash each other a familiar grin and the music flows from the amp stacks like sweet honey, time stops."

Steve Wildsmith

"The Lonesome Coyotes are Knoxville's most celebrated band to play in the Texas swing and country-rock styles. Besides the trademark male-female harmonizing of Maggie Longmire's powerful alto and Steve Horton's mellow baritone, the Coyote sound is bolstered by the symbiotic lead and pedal steel guitar attack of Hector Qirko and Jay Barron, and driven by the powerhouse rhythm section of drummer Doug Klein and bassist Stan Turner."

"Sitting in on a modern-day Lonesome Coyotes practice session is like time-traveling with an upgrade. The real-life music sounds just as good—or, shockingly, maybe even better—in the straight-and-sober flesh as it does when replayed in the beery archives of the mind."

Betty Bean