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“After half a dozen listens over two long road trips I can wholeheartedly recommend you BUY and LISTEN to Jaimee Harris’ new record [Boomerang Town]. She has things to say that I’m the better for having heard! I expect you will be, too. Thank you for being so generous with your heart and artistry, Jaimee!”— Iris DeMent

“Boomerang Town is my #1 record of the year.” — Silas House

"I first heard Jaimee Harris in 2018 and was just blown away by the power of her voice, the plaintiveness in her voice...and the honesty and forthrightness in her songwriting. Her second album does not disappoint on those levels. Tough stuff, family trauma, addiction, but there's also some beautiful love songs and a lot of hope on this record, too. It is just beautiful. You will be crying by the end of this record. Happy tears."- Ann Powers, New Music Friday feature (NPR)

“What a revelation this second album from Texas-born, Nashville-based singer-songwriter Jaimee Harris is!” - Blair Jackson, Acoustic Guitar Magazine

“This is definitely one of the best singer-songwriter albums I’ve heard in a while…” - Blair Jackson, Acoustic Guitar Magazine

"Jaimee Harris’s 2020 Red Rescue was an auspicious debut, but Boomerang Town is a far stronger, more reflective, more emotional and masterful album that firmly announces her as both a voice and a writer of the finest grade." — Folk Radio UK

“Boomerang Town reaches new heights for Harris.” — Austin Chronicle

“Her second album is the astonishing Boomerang Town… it further demonstrates the spellbinding writing skills she demonstrated in Red Rescue. It is a folk album with Americana leanings, generally slower than her debut and addresses many issues including love, emotional distance, death, grief, family, isolation, and inequality…Devastatingly honest songwriting.” — AmericanaUK

"Jaimee Harris weaves spellbinding tales, wrapping stories of home, grief, loss, addiction, and love into deeply moving atmospheric music... Harris’ emotionally expansive vocals ring with a crystal clarity and pull from her cinematic songwriting a poignant core of feeling that reverberates with every note." — No Depression

"Harris pulls off a skillful balance of craftsmanship and heart on Boomerang Town. With her moving vocals and airtight lyricism, Harris has created not only a sonic tour of small-town living, but a songwriting tour de force." – 9/10 stars (!!) Holler.

“On her second album, the talented singer-songwriter returns home to explore characters wrestling with loss and dreams deferred.” — Texas Music Magazine

“Boomerang Town is not a breezy, easy listen, but it’s an important album, with a lot to say. It’s also one that grows more impressive with each new listen.” — Americana Highways

“Taken from her forthcoming album, the song [“The Fair and Dark Haired Lad”] is part of an ambitious song-cycle that explores the generational arc of family, the stranglehold of addiction and the fragile ties that hold Americans together, tracing the fortunes and misfortunes of a colourful cast of small-town characters caught between hope and hopelessness.” – Holler.

“The latest taste of the album comes with ‘The Fair and Dark Haired Lad’. A pulsing Appalachian folk ballad that grapples with the seductive nature of alcohol and the addictions that all too often go along with it. With its lilting violins and stylised take on Celtic-tinged Americana, it brings to mind the folksy rock of Desire era Bob Dylan and Emmylou Harris’ Wrecking Ball, and ends up sounding like Polly Harvey fronting The Chicks.” – Holler.

"Jaimee Harris has been making waves with her emotive, stirringly honest songwriting that walks the often thin line between folk and country. Whatever you want to call it, it rides on the smooth instrument of Harris’s vocals and her courageous storytelling lyricism." — Kim Ruehl, Folk Alley

“If you don’t know Jaimee Harris already then you need to get her on your music player of choice as soon as possible –  great songs sung powerfully and, live, an easy raconteur.” — Americana UK

"The album [Boomerang Town] is an impressive step forward, showcasing Harris’s knack for storytelling through an arc about breaking free from destructive patterns." – Christopher Treacy, Country Queer

“This ["Missing Someone"] is a total bop.” – Christopher Treacy, Country Queer

“Jaimee Harris’ Red Rescue Is The Debut Of The Year And The Arrival Of A Major New Figure In Americana” — Americana Highways

“Red Rescue may be a debut record, but this is the work of an artist of considerable maturity and sophistication. She has already produced a work of art that far surpasses what most musicians ever will. This could very well mark the arrival of one of the major figures in the next generation of Americana artists.” — Americana Highways

“...there’s no doubting Red Rescue heralds the arrival of a major new Austin singer-songwriter.” — Peter Blackstock, Austin American Statesman

“One of the best releases this year.” — Lonesome Highway

“She’s quick to pay homage to her musical heroes but Jaimee Harris is her own person, with her own voice. She’s got a natural songwriter’s instinct for the hard truths, and a voice that brings them home with a visceral punch. Pay attention.” — Gretchen Peters

“There’s so much passion in Jaimee’s voice that you just want to climb inside it and hang out there forever. She is unafraid to channel the dark side of her own being... the woundedness is there, as well as the strength required to overcome it and redeem us all. That’s what good music can do.” — Eliza Gilkyson

“My number one from AmericanaFest is Jaimee Harris. I’m obsessed with [Depressive State] right now.” — Ann Powers, NPR

“Rarely is a young artist tasked with so much to prove and live up to on their debut. Then again, rarer still are debut albums like this one, which sounds a lot more like a mid-career breakthrough on the level of Car Wheels on a Gravel Road than a tentative first step.Yes, it really is that damn good.” — Lone Star Music Magazine