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Charleston Gazette - 10/21/05

"Move over, Nancy Wilson. Move over, Bonnie Raitt. Hell, move over Jimi Hendrix. There's a new kid in town and she's smokin'. Never in my life have I seen a female guitar player play with such technique the way Natalie Wells did on Friday night.

I walked into the bar after work at midnight when the entertainment is usually packing up for the evening. This 22-year-old woman and her Cincinnati-based band (known appropriately enough as 'The Natalie Wells Band') were raring to go with another set that absolutely blew me off my seat.

I read that she played the blues, but with her double-braided hair and headscarf, I assumed that she would pull out a Grateful Dead tune or three. Much to my surprise and to the astonishment of the rest of the audience, she instead, among other songs, played Hendrix's 'Manic Depression'. This chick, who has only known how to play guitar for almost five years, pulled out riffs that, as someone who has been playing guitar for 17 years, I could only dream of playing. I daresay she even puts Hendrix himself to the test.

Wells was so impressive that her band, which was extremely talented in their own right, was almost overlooked. You have to be one hell of a musician to be able to play along to what this prodigy had to offer up. The performance was mind-boggling."

Tim Halloran, Freewheelin' Magazine - 08/05

"The truth be told, I'm really better at writing about music than I ever will be playing it. There is a new band on the block fronted by a 22-year-old prodigy named Natalie Wells. If you have not had the chance to hear this lady play the Blues, well, you're in for a treat; she's HOT!"

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