One of the year's standout albums...

One of the top two female contemporary blues albums I’ve listened to all year... puts Fiona into some elite company when the powers that be decide on the nominees for next year’s Blues Music Awards.

One of the most sizzling blues albums—by anyone—in years.

Boyes lets it be known that this time she's cranking up the volume... it's one wicked slab of blues. With albums this good she'll be on top of all of the blues polls before long.

She sounds like Raitt’s evil twin, and that’s really a good thing... simply a riot, well-deserving of all the accolades she’s been racking up.

This is great stuff... The lady does it all, plays a wicked guitar, knows how to growl a lyric...

Superb... Boyes' facility to move in and out of a variety of blues styles with ease rivals that of a Rory Block or Bonnie Raitt.

[Boyes] plays guitar and growls country blues like few others, no matter where they come from...

The hottest woman on the blues scene...

This record demonstrates that she is in league with any current American artist... in an age where the Blues community is waiting for another Stevie Ray, Boyes is one to watch.

Memphis Minnie channels Mae West and sings through a set of pipes that Johnny Winter would admire...

Her electric guitar easily scratches out the licks in that distorted down home Mississippi style, and her acoustic fingerpicking seems to settle you down on the back porch for a spell... it all adds up to one good sounding CD.

Lucky 13? Not at all. There is no chance of fate here, just the talent of Fiona Boyes turned loose on the American listening public.

By any standard, this is one of the most entertaining and inspiring new blues recordings of the year...

Fiona Boyes can play with anyone, male or female, Australian or Delta-born, traditionalist or modern blues interpreter... She’s the real thing.

Lucky 13 only reinforces her reputation as the most heralded female blues musician on the scene...

It's life and Blues from a musician who is deep and mature, yet the opposite of somber...

This is one of my favorite albums this year... Fiona Boyes sometimes sounds like Bonnie Raitt and sometimes like Marcia Ball, but her talent is undeniable.

She's one strummin' sassy momma...payoff is biggest when she and her axe step into the back alley just looking for trouble.

Recalls Maria Muldaur at her blues mama best... wow!

A powerhouse of an American debut...

Gleefully providing a feminine slant on the blues in the manner of her idol, Memphis Minnie...

This is great, greasy stuff... Boyes is as thoroughly steeped in country blues as any American currently playing today.

It would be tough to find a style of blues that Fiona Boyes fails to cover on this outstanding sampler of her artistry... she is an instrumental master at work on almost every guitar solo here, whether it's dazzling acoustic finger-picking or heated electric riffs.

Encapsulates her expanding repertoire and diverse range of styles, including original and classic tunes on acoustic and electric guitar...

Simultaneously traditional and contemporary while variously buoyant and downhearted... a rock-solid U.S. debut.

With a style borrowed from the likes of Memphis Minnie, Etta Baker and Marcia Ball, Boyes is cutting her own identity in the acoustic blues world...

Has a flair for the classic, eccentric and all things Americana...

Very much like something those Uppity Blues Women would record... This Aussie needs to be checked out. She is good!