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Review: Ryan Adams at the Royal Albert Hall
The five-piece line-up was the kind to make any clued-in fan salivate with anticipation: Benmont Tench (of Tom Petty's Heartbreakers) on keyboards, Don Was (of Was Not Was, also a hot-shot producer) on bass, Cindy Cashdollar (previous employers Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Asleep at the Wheel) on steel guitar, Ethan Johns (hot-shot producer, multi-instrumental prodigy) on guitar and Jeremy Stacey (who in fact has played with Sheryl Crow, Zero 7 and Joe Cocker as well as Mr Gallagher's High Flying Birds) on the drums.
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Mirror
Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women
Alvin puts his Guilty Men on hold to give the music an estrogen injection by way of Marcia Ball, Cindy Cashdollar, Christy McWilson, Laurie Lewis and other distaff roots-rock talents. He sounds particularly inspired during a duet with McWilson on the twangy C&W shuffle "California's Burning," savoring each syllable he utters, while in a Cajun-styled update of the Blasters' "Marie Marie" he growls and yelps delightedly against a three-gal backing chorus.
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Billboard
Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women
... Alvin wanted to try something new and asked Cindy Cashdollar, a gifted slide guitarist and good friend, to put together an acoustic band to back him for the show. Cashdollar assembled a killer all-female quintet, and Alvin was jazzed enough with the results to promptly take the band into the studio.
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Billboard
Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women
In short, this is a superb set, one that raises the bar ever higher for Americana wannabes. Under Alvin's auspices, hymns of the heartland never sounded so sweet.
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Bullz-Eye.com
Alvin kicks up new sparks with guilty women
... the group comes out blasting with the galloping electric folk-blues "California's Burning," an allegorical tale that provides a requiem for the Golden State's cash-strapped coffers. Alvin and McWilson duet like Richard and Mimi Farina here, and Cindy Cashdollar adds some fiery slide playing.
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Amazon
Dave Alvin's women are as guilty as his men
As Alvin imagined, the band coalesced onstage within minutes, and the Guilty Women became one of the festival's highlights. Alvin's first review came from Yep Roc President Glenn Dicker, who was watching the show from just off stage. "There's a set of stairs that leads from the stage to the backstage area, and he was standing at the top of those stairs, and as I headed offstage, he just said, 'Record, record,'" says Alvin with a laugh. "Within a month and a half, two months, we were in the studio in Austin. It was almost like the blink of an eye."
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Country Standard Time
Wall to Wall Guitar Festival, Champagne, IL, 2007
But the amazing moments of the Festival, the ones people talked about at the proverbial water coolers the next day, came from Cindy Cashdollar, The Campbell Brothers, and Los Lobos. A sterling slide guitarist who is comfortable playing lap steel, dobro, electric, acoustic probably any stringed instrument that can take a slide Cashdollar brings imagination and confidence to her instrument, no matter the genre. Cashdollar played no set of her own, yet she sat in on several; every time she came on stage, the performers relaxed and the energy went up, sometimes dramatically.
Ryan Adams, "Cold Roses" release
"Cashdollar's stellar steel flourishes continuously that imbues the music with a rich melodic grace ..."
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No Depression Magazine
Rod Stewart, Nokia Theater, NYC
"Stewart's band, particularly steel player Cindy Cashdollar, buoyed him through the set."
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Variety
Van Morrison, Oakland, CA with Rolling Stones
"... the aching steel guitar of Cindy Cashdollar dominated the band's direction all night - particularly on her solo on 'Playhouse' ..."
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The Richmond Times Dispatch
Van Morrison Tour, 2006
"... Cindy Cashdollar added standout Dobro and steel guitar flourishes ... "
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The Boston Herald
