"6'4"- A musical giant. If you don't like him - you're deaf! Crosses every musical border with total ease and success." - Clem Ryan - CKR Radio - Ireland. "Thank you for the absolutely brilliant J.P.Cormier album...It's a beautiful album with some great songs." - Ken Birkenshaw - Red Rose Gold 9/97. "The album is outstanding...It's so refreshing to receive an album possessing so much individuality and exhuding the roots of musical Cape Breton, whilst retaining great commercial appeal." - Bryan Chalker - CMR - Sept.'97. "...one seriously gifted individual." - John O'Regan - Rock'n'Reel. "Imagine the first class writing abilities of Stan Rogers, James Keelaghan and Dan McKinnon married to a blistering skill on guitar, fiddle and banjo. If the songs don't get you, the solos will...the words and tunes drive their way into your mind, and then Cormier's fingers pick a riff that could make the sun rise in the west...It's an essential for the top ten albums of the year and, at the moment, it's in pole position...Cormier's a storyteller of the first order, with compulsive choruses and each soaring, searing solo cutting in just when you least expect it...He's a wizard with words...If you want a total mindblower, examine the use of words and the sublime music behind the environmental message in 'Hell Freezin' Over'...The whole album is a minefield of instrumental, vocal and lyrical delights. If you make just one serious effort to expand your listening experiences this year, let this be it." - Mick Tems - Taplas - Dec/Jan Edition.

Folk World CD Reviews J.P. Cormier has now published a songwriting album, after his 'Return to the Cape' with just instrumental fiddle based music rooting in his Cape Breton origins. As the cover says, this CD should be filed under 'New Country'. Maybe it would be better filed under 'J.P. Cormier' as the music is very much his own style. J.P. plays loads of instruments - from guitar, fiddle and banjo down to feet, spoons and guitar case; and he is joined by more than twenty guests, including a choir. While having to choose an instrument from his collection, he has also written all 12 songs - a real workaholic. And everything he does is good quality, especially his songwriting and his exceptional technique on acoustic and electric guitar.