"...the quality of the work is head and shoulders above the vast majority of releases in the roots genre. The pure, raw emotion that this woman generates is something even veteran blues and soul artists could take a lesson from. The girl emotes, and emotes with passion."
-Duluth News Tribune, August 2011
“Chastity Brown may well be one of the most underrated vocalists in the Twin Cities…[she] has crafted a sound that will sneakily pull you in and keep you close. Brown is a rare bird in these Minnesota parts, and it's worth a trip to see her play”
–Minneapolis' City Pages, January 2011
"Giving the Twin Cities scene a much needed injection of brassy soul...Brown’s melodic command is equally unwavering whether playing the role of stripped-down acoustic troubadour on epic lyrically driven ballads (“Only This”) or getting her groove on atop jazzy piano-pop arrangements (the simply sublime “From My Own”)."
-Twin Cities Metromix Ten Best Local Albums of 2010
"...Brown’s voice pours forth like warm honey, a sweet and rich concoction of melody and passion"
-The Daily Times, Knoxville, TN, December 2010
"Chastity Brown infuses the songs, no matter the style, with true soul, the kind that allows the words to form and the spirit to give them life."
-The Alternate Root Magazine, November 2010
"Ms. Brown’s terrific third album, High Noon Teeth, is an artistic molting for the Minneapolis singer-songwriter. Released last summer, it finds Brown shedding her coffee-shop folkie shtick and reemerging, triumphantly, as a genre-hopping troubadour."
"Rootsy acoustic singer/songwriter Chastity Brown is an accomplished veteran at 28. Both soulful and jazzy, vulnerable and fierce, her first two CDs, Do the Best You Can and Sankofa, established her as an up-and-comer to watch. Her latest, High Noon Teeth, is an even stronger effort that recently launched to a packed house at The Cedar—just one more sign that locals have embraced her as one of our own."
-Mpls/St. Paul Magazine, October 2010
"Chastity Brown mesmerized the packed house, a soul balladeer of the first order."
-Twin Cities Daily Planet, October 2010
"One-of-a-kind soul singer Chastity Brown straddles multiple genres on stunning new album...it finds Brown and her bandmates confidently jumping between buttery-smooth full band R& B ("Push You Away"), slow-burning rock ("Strong Enough"), and jaunty piano-driven pop ("From My Old")-- and that's just the first three tracks."
-Rob Van Alstyne, City Pages, June 2010
"Chastity Brown is contemporary roots music personified."
-Dwight Hobbes, Twin Cities Daily Planet, June 2010
"The best songs are the most ambitiously arranged ones, including the jazz-boppy piano ditty "From My Old," the wildly veering grinder "By the Train Tracks" and the twangy "Bound to Happen," which shows off the 28-year-old singer's Tennessee roots and biracial background musically and lyrically. Amid these varied tempos, the stark, evocative acoustic fare she's best known for stands out even better, especially the ambitious eight-minute weeper "Only This."
-Chris Riemenschneider, Minneapolis Star Tribune, June 2010
"By The Train Tracks" -89.3 FM, The Current's Song of The Day
-Minnesota Public Radio, June 4, 2010
"The roots soul singer immediately reminds one of Toshi Reagon and Meshell Ndegeocello-- Brown is extraordinary with her soulful storytelling."
-www.jassed.com, March 5, 2010
"mixing a combination of folk, blues, and jazz, Brown reminds me quite a bit of one of my favorite all time artists, Odetta. Though Brown’s voice weighs lighter on the ears than Odetta’s unmistakable river-deep alto, she shares a political ideology with the “voice of the civil rights movement"
-Jon Behm, CultureBully.com, March 2009
"...brings to mind a 21-st century version of Nina Simone."
-Ross Rahaila, St. Paul Pioneer Press, March 2009
"melting Minneapolis with her powerful soul-jazz combo"
- Andrea Swensson, City Pages, March 2009
"As Chastity Brown took the stage, I suddenly imagined myself as John Cusak in that scene in High Fidelity where Marie De Salle takes the stage - it's that moment when a really good singer songwriter first opens his or her mouth and the first word sort of rolls across the audience and everyone perceivably locks into focus - the kind of moment that makes you wish you were John Cusak in some movie falling in love (however momentarily) with some blow-you-away folk singer up there on stage. Chastity Brown scores high marks in all the Marie De Salle categories. She's a little mysterious, a touch aloof, she's got great hair, she plays guitar well, she plays saxophone even better, and despite nursing a sore throat on the night in question, her voice wraps you up and doesn't let you go."
-Dan O'Neil, Cakein15.com, December 2008
"...for those who appreciate songwriter-fueled jazz and a sense of organic greatness in the making, she is nothing short of a massage therapist for the ears and soul."
-Jim Walsh, Minneapolis Star Tribune, September 2007
"Born just outside of Memphis and now residing in Minneapolis, Brown combines the best parts of her two hometowns’ musical legacies—the soulful gospel of Graceland-ville with the grittier roots of the place that produced Prince."
-Jason Bugg, Mountain Xpress Review, Asheville, NC, July 2007
