"The Devil Makes Three seems like an appropriate name for a trio that sings about drinking Jack Daniels in heaven. And while Pete Bernhard, Cooper McBean, and Lucia Turino may eventually end up in rehab from the sound of "Old No. 7," the whiskey didn't hurt their ability to cut a enjoyable, down-to-earth folk album."
-Ronnie Lankford, Sing Out Magazine - Winter 2004
"After hearing the booze-stained lyrics and American roots-influenced sound of the Devil Makes Three, you may think that good ol' Mr. Johnson wasn't the only one who sold his soul to the Prince of Darkness down at the crossroads. This Santa Cruz trio blend classic country, ragtime, bluegrass, and folk with their own fiery attitude and a sincere approach that create the sound and feel of a dusty old 78, but with an immediacy that's unforgettable. Acoustic guitar, upright bass, and banjo weave with tightly knit vocal harmonies in songs that'll have you tapping your foot and humming uncontrollably - particularly "The Bullet," "Graveyard," and "Old No. 7," which Jack Daniel's should use as its jingle."
-Sean McCourt, San Francisco Bay Guardian -- April 26, 2004
"Complete with an upright bass, steel and acoustic guitars, and a grassroots no-one's-going-to-do-it-for-us-but-us attitude, these three are not at all what you run across every day in record stores over-saturated with redundant crap. They're more country than punk, and more bluegrass than rock. And that's exactly why they deserve a good hard listen."
-Scotty McDonald, Thrasher Magazine
"This acoustic trio bridge different musical eras without the camp common in nostalgic sounds, nor do they coast on cliches. Soulful roots music instead of 10 carefully calculated reproductions of the past, The Devil Makes Three is a deviant middle finger to all Johnny-come-lately bluegrass listeners."
-Punk Planet #56
"The songwriting is at times as captivating as a good ghost story told around a campfire, with Bernhard's persona straddling the line between the grand tradition of the gritty, whiskey-swilling depressives of yore and your modern day barfly, with a scratchy, scrappy vocal style."
-Mike Connor, Santa Cruz Metro
" The group's music cuts a wide swath that touches everyone from their hipster contemporaries to grannies here and yon.... It's folk, but a mean kind of jug-band folk, spiked with whiskey and dust."
-Wallace Baine, Santa Cruz Sentinel
'"longjohns.." is amazing. i havent been so hung up on an album since wu-tang's "36 chambers"'
-Some dude named "Kingpin" on Myspace