Press
Akademia Award - October 2016 Best Pop Rock Album
'Who We Are Not has a masterful touch with guitar and rhythm arrangements and their soulful vocal descants impart critical humanity to an already competent collection of rock treasures.'
Hampton Roads’ Shreds: Who We Are Not @ Cafe Stella
... There’s an earnestness to the songwriting here that I find endearing, and I have a great deal of respect for Joe Talley’s playing. If I find myself wandering into a coffee-shop one early evening where they’re grooving? I’ll hang and enjoy the show...
Trenchless Technology Special Music Section: The Heart of Rock and Roll and Trenchless
...Virginia-based band...a blend of different genres, including rock, blues, jazz, folk, funk and soul. Their record label is SoniQual Records...
Album Review: Who We Are Not
"...husband and wife singer-songwriters Joe Talley and Pamela Jo Sward lay down the template for what is to follow: sweet medium tempo grooves, catchy melodies, lyrics punctuated with memorable phrases that leap out and lie in residence in the listener’s consciousness. For the next hour, they lead their band through a dozen original songs filled with those three elements: life, love and reflective ruminations."
Who We Are Not funnels folk, jazz and pop into a new CD
"...The band is called Who We Are Not, and its new CD could just as easily be titled "What Aren't We?" Depending on which track you listen to, this is a jazz outfit, a folk rock group or a retro pop group drawing on 1960s and early '70s influences (think somehwere between Joni Mitchell and Maria Muldaur)..."
