Austin-American Statesman Reviews Water To Wine

With the official street date of Nakia’s debut full-length, Water To Wine just last week, the Austin-American Statesman has reviewed the album for today’s Sunday edition. Alongside fellow Austin soul rockers, Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears, the Statesman concludes that the Austin soul scene is “in good shape.” Here’s a quick blurb from the review:

Thousands of Austinites might best recognize Nakia as the unassuming fellow pulled on-stage for a dance with soul diva Sharon Jones at the Austin City Limits Music Festival 2008. She’s not the first genre devotee to see something special in Nakia….Nakia’s rich voice and lyrics that lay bare the record’s themes of discrimination, love, loss and spirituality. “On the Bus” features an Otis Redding whistle, while “There Goes the Neighborhood” is a dizzyingly brilliant array of instrumentation and insightful lyricism. The slightly bitter “Elizabeth Lee” and “Outta My Head,” meanwhile, are frustrated odes to a lost love in the best tradition of Southern blues.

Read the full review on Austin360.com here.