Okonokos

Rolling Stone (p.72) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "OKONOKOS swaggers along with lean guitars and big keyboards, cherry-picking tunes from MMJ's early records." Spin (p.103) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "An aesthetic- and career- defining set, it's the album they were destined to make." Spin (p.61) - Ranked #08 in Spin's "The 40 Best Albums of 2006" -- "[A] hairy, old-fashioned rock outfit that does everything right." Entertainment Weekly (p.81) - "This is an impressive representation of the MMJ live experience..." -- Grade: A- Q (p.147) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "OKONOKOS is a heroic performance...Jim James's unlikely celestial holler is revealed as no studio trick..." No Depression (p.101) - "They get almost funky during 'What A Wonderful Man', and the way they fold in a southern-rock guitar riff, voiced in thirds, illustrates how cunningly they manage to update the whole post-Allman Brothers tradition without making a big deal of it." Mojo (Publisher) (p.118) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "OKONOKOS lacks nothing in great songs or celestial playing..."