"They've descended deep into the gutter, rolled around for a bit, screwed their courage to the post, and ascended with a very mature and enthralling album...[Sidewalk Dave] are true artists" - No Depression (Apr 13, 2010)
"Fast on the heels of last year’s Songs for Cowards, Gold Liquid Mischief is a solid step forward for the band. Sidewalk Dave borrows from the folk noir tendencies of Brooklyn’s Andy Friedman and funnel it into their own brand of folk rock debauchery."
"Over the past few years, approximately one zillion young musicians have put their own spin on a fusion of contemporary indie rock and American roots music. It's quite a trick to stand out from that pack. Sidewalk Dave does" - Fairfield County Weekly (Feb 04, 2010)
"There are plenty of drinking songs in the world already, but as long as the new additions are as well-crafted as these, there will always be room for more. " - Mike Sembos, New Haven Advocate (Apr 15, 2010)
"Sidewalk Dave ripped into 'Godless Universe' as if articulating a ballad eating at the hearts of everyone in the room. [He] rallied the band, yelling "come on, boys!" and rotated on heel to face them during a period of fiendish hook." - The Sound Magazine (Feb 01, 2010)
"[Songs for Cowards] evokes a mood of landlocked pirates belting out concrete sea shanties on dusty street corners, cobbling together new anthems for the fearful and dispossessed wishing to break out of their self-constructed prisons." - Jim Simpson, Country Music Pride (Oct 11, 2009)
"From the path of Sidewalk Dave’s style of dirty Americana/folk ballad, strays a commentary on the vulnerability of cowardice." - Cinemaroll (Jul 22, 2008)
"I don't usually go to folk shows but with Hoots and Hellmouth and Sidewalk Dave this show seems like one of the more solid lineups in the area." - john smif, CT Indie (Dec 09, 2009)
"Songs For Cowards rolls the film in the mind's eye to project scenes of unfettered traveling, frail wallets... howling a nostalgic lament over a broken down organ. Unabashedly proclaiming your lot in life to whoever's around to hear, even if it makes you a bastard." - Elise Granata, Inkwell Press (May 11, 2009)
"The New Haven-area band's album Songs for Cowards was one of our favorite local releases of 2009 and holds its own amongst the work of their nationwide peers."
"Sidewalk Dave does not ask for pity with these songs; theirs is a call to action: face your fears. You get so caught up in the emotional content throughout Songs for Cowards that by the end you don’t feel pummeled by the message, so much as surrounded and absorbed by it... A brave effort, for sure" - Jim Simpson, Country Music Pride (Oct 11, 2009)
"Guitars and organs snake their way through the mix. Van Witt's husky voice grows increasingly ragged. Then the songs open up with layers of vocal harmonies or fuzzed-out and squalling, soaring guitar leads. Then it ends." - Brian LaRue, New Haven Advocate (Jul 16, 2009)
