"Browning's dark yarns and whisky-tinged voice made demi-dryer's self-released "Empty Space" one of the best albums you never heard last year..." Salt Lake City Weekly
"Browning's gritty Southern lilt matches nicely with fiery guitar work on the band's latest, "Empty Space". - Salt Lake City Tribune
"...expansive Americana sound, where Browning's emotional reactions to the world correspond with a natural beauty in the music. The effect reaches sublime levels on the title track, a song about the messy leavings of a break-up, set to tribal rhythms and an arrangement that recreates the great outdoors at its most menacing and awesome." Performing Songwriter
"Recent demi-dryer CD, Empty Space, can be compared, stylistically perhaps to an Austin sound, and Browning's vocals and lyrics reflect her Southern upbringing. No lilting belle though, rather a moody, poetic gunslinger, with a very unique voice." Hipfish
"Browning and Beeson display an even sharper grasp of mood and atmosphere (on Empty Space) than on their accomplished debut, Outside Line." - The Oregonian, 2001
"Browning's songs are confident, sensuous, country-ish numbers. Her voice, like Lucinda Williams or Neil Young, is a captivating marriage of grit and vulnerability. Demi-Dryer has assembled 12 tracks as strong as good black coffee. Get out on the highway, roll down the windows and turn up the volume - this one's a keeper." - Nervy Girl!, 2001
"Demi-Dryer play swampy country bluesrock...they have laid down an honest music experience, unconcerned with the fashions on the day and thus all the more true." - Portland Mercury, 2001
"Rachel Browning brings you into her world of dark story lines with a gently passionate voice...Empty Space flows over the peaks and valleys of Browning's life delivering her truths like personal diary entries." - Two Louies, 2001
"Empty Space...is without a a self-conscious or inauthentic note..." The Willamette Week, 2001
"Browning is an astonishing talent. And in Dryer she has found a perfect showcase for her gifts. There is a dark undercurrent to much of this music, a wanderlust and a vision of the road, indeed of America, that is rich in gothic images..." Goldmine Magazine, 2000
"Browning's voice unself-conciously breaks and twists on the reefs of emotion... It's a voice perfectly suited to the job at hand, dark and naturalistic, unschooled and real..." The Oregonian, 2000
"(Dryer's debut album) Outside Line is an impressive, well-produced, engaging and thoroughly charming introduction and you are hereby advised to sit and watch this Dryer spin." The Rocket PDX, 2000
"....fat sound, expert lead guitar and crackerjack songwriting runs consistently through their live and recorded work." - HardRoad.com, 2000
"(Dryer's debut album) Outside Line is at once airy and heavy with glistening guitar lines that give way to rugged bass grooves. Vocalist Rachel Browning sets the tone with her inflective voice, which goes from apple cider to vinegar in an instant" - The Eugene Register-Guard, 2000
"They don't feel the need to prove they are "real" by taking some exaggerated pose of authenticity. Dryer just plays their music and hoe down with no fuss, no fluff. Just lots of heat and a good dance spin." - The Portland Mercury, 2000
"Dryer's earthy backwoods tales are as refreshing as a cold beer after a long, hard ride...Dryer is not just full of hot air. Its musical spirit is still untattered. Like a lone tree on top of the hill or a gusting wind, Dryer has complete disregard for radio pop and genre compliance.... It will be exciting to see what comes next for this band." City Search, 2000
"Browning's voice is so achingly pure, it defies categorization. To be sure, it has a very rural sound, but it transcends traditional country." Goldmine Magazine, 1999
"Fronted by the reedy, beaten but certainly not broken voice of Rachel Browning, this refreshing acoustic quartet carves out original, yet
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