“I think they're terrific...... I might try to root out another track from that album in the weeks to come. I do like it. It's full of jolly good stuff. ”
— Mike Harding
“If you’re a booker, an agent or looking to add a band with zip, spark and invention to your ‘do’, I’ve found them, out in the outer rings of planet York – and they’re courgette shaped.”
— Americana UK
“My favourite find of the week..... I just love them so much that I want to kick things off with them..... I really like those guys: they're super-fun.”
— Baylen Leonard (Amazing Radio)
“If that doesn't start the show with some chair-dancing, I don't know what will. ”
— Readifolk Radio Show
“One of the finest purveyors of that junk-band, depression-era, old-time drinking music.”
— Americana UK
“King Cougette ..... doing their very best to make our thighs red raw on a Saturday evening.”
— Jericho Keys (BBC Radio York)
“Wherever they play, there’s a party going on. ”
— York Mix
“Stylistically, King Courgette skilfully hopped between bluegrass, jazz, blues, skiffle and all manner of sub-graftings between these genres..... American music viewed through rebellious English eyes, where all styles were equally ripe for harvest.”
— All About Jazz Magazine
“Next up were King Courgette, a joy to watch. Always giving an animated performance, the group take on the persona of a band straight out of Nashville, Tennessee, and they have all the dialect and props to convince us of this.”
— Median Reviews
“A delightfully daft bunch of blokes from Yorkshire who play a Northern England version of American bluegrass. It's bright, it's full of punch, and it's organically grown..... their album is a riot. ”
— Folkcast
“King Courgette, without any doubt one of the best exponents of the (bluegrass) genre in the UK at present, providing a hybrid of the traditional and the modern. They take the baton and move it on. ”
— Americana UK