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“Paul Oscher plays the
  soul I feel” Muddy Waters

“Paul Oscher’s a monster: harp, piano, and guitar—plays slide like Muddy.” James Cotton

“A legend… a musician’s musician. When I saw him working with Muddy Waters
and Otis Spann, it was the toughest band I’d ever seen… an inspiration.”
Rick Estrin of Little Charlie & the Nitecats

“Classic Chicago Blues… his blues has the bite and gravity of the tradition he upholds.” John Pareles, The New York Times

“…a deep satisfying blues experience.” Critics Choice, Billboard

“You can hear Muddy in his guitar, and Otis Spann in the piano, but the overriding sensation is of Oscher at the height of his powers and maturity. This is a man who has spent his life steeped in a blues tradition, and it
shows.” Juke Blues (U.K.)

“He’s got all my respect.” William Clark

“The most natural musician I know.” Jerry Portnoy, harp with Muddy Waters & Eric Clapton

“The first guy that I ever met who could really play the harp, he used tongue
blocking before any of his contemporaries.” Magic Dick

“Muddy Water’s album Live at Mr. Kelly’s, featuring Paul Oscher on harmonica was one of the first blues albums I purchased when I was in high school. His
harmonica playing has been inspirational and I admire the road he has traveled. He paved the way for all the blues harmonica players of my generation.” Bob Corritore, harp player & owner of The Rhythm Room, Phoenix, Arizona

“No one on the scene can beat his low-down harp tone, his ability to summon
Muddy’s spirit in his slide guitar playing, and his blue note piano technique. He’s right where he’s always been: smack in the middle of the real unadulterated blues.” Kim Field, Author of Harmonicas, Harps, and Heavy Breathers

“…If you like the real thing, that is the blues played without compromise: Paul Oscher’s ‘Down In The Delta’ should be in your CD player right now.” Sing Out!

"A must for devotees and players."  Knight Rider wire service

“Paul Oscher not only channels the guitar sound of Muddy Waters, piano of Otis Spann, and the deepest toned blues harp this side of Big Walter Horton, he’s also a fine songwriter in the classic blues tradition. Oscher is one of a kind.” Scott Dirks, Author, Little Walter biography, Blues With A Feeling

“Paul Oscher’s blues are deep as the Delta soil. With just a guitar, a slide, a harmonica and his voice, Oscher rekindles the fire, soul and spirit of the music of the late, great Muddy Waters.” Ted Drozdowski, The Boston Phoenix, Tower Pulse!, Guitar World, and winner 1998 Keeping the Blues Alive in Journalism Award

“Paul Oscher carries the soul of Muddy Waters in his music, he deserves wider recognition as a superb musician, singer and songwriter.” Sandra Tooze,  Author of Mojo Man biography of Muddy Waters

“He seems to be channeling the riffs straight from Blues Heaven.” Blue Suede News

“One of the best authentic blues albums of the year.” Andy Grigg Real Blues Magazine

“When I saw we had booked a solo performer, I wondered how he would get over with our band crowd, but when I saw all the best Blues musicians in Toronto
in the audience I knew we had something special. Paul sounded like a whole band and played all those instruments. He rocked the house. People are still talking about it.“ Michelle Gebhart, Silver Dollar, Toronto

“It’s not simply multi-instrumental wizardry or cross-genre mastery that
makes Alone with the Blues so impressive: Oscher simply has that deep blues feeling... instrumental triple threat…impressive stylistic range… a tonal tour de force...” Tom Hyslop Blues Revue