“…Cruel Words arrives on our shores with 4-and 5-star reviews from every influential UK publication, including Mojo (4 Stars, “as much jazz as roots music, as much poetry as rock”); Maverick (5 Stars, “Johnny Dowd is a law unto himself”;…Daily Mirror (4 Stars, “wit and wisdom to match even the late great Warren Zevon”); and The Independent (5 Stars, “may be the greatest album of his career”).” - Cision