"The ...cd consists entirely of original material that sounds as if it could have been recorded decades ago by the likes of Bob Wills or Patsy Cline."
                  -- Ken Roseman, The City Paper

"It's hard to point to any particular stand-out moments on this CD because there are just so many of them, whther it be the fine Telecaster licks and deep, Tubb-like vocals of Mike Woods, the reverb-laden pedal steel, the playfully dulcet crooning of Diana Quinn, or the overall warmth of the simple production."
                    -- Buddy Woodward, Cornfed

"Quinn mines heartache like a honky tonk habitue and finds plenty of sympathetic support from her bandmates...What's more, most of the songs composed by Quinn, King and Woods...remind us that in some circles at least, honky tonk's neon lights are still shining bright."    -- Mike Joyce, The Washington Post

"Quinn and the boys knocked out a nice little survey course in country music history with...reverent interpretations of Wanda Jackson, Bob Wills and Johnny Cash, along with originals that sounded as if they were written two or three decades ago."
               -- Bill Craig, The Richmond Times-Dispatch

"Anything on this album beats listening to the radio by a country mile."
                     -- Joel Bernstein, Country Standard Time
 

Honky Tonk Confidential/Ghost Rockets/Elena Skye & the Demolition String Band   Capital City Barn Dance, Dogtown Lounge, Richmond, VA 
Richmond Times-Dispatch    by Bill Craig     (March 1, 1999)

"The evening's most unadulterated twang was provided by the four men and one woman of Honky Tonk Confidential. Carried by the vocals of Diana Quinn, Mike Woods and Geff King and a ton of sweet string work, the band paid homage to the founding fathers and mothers of country music with reverent interpretations of tunes by, among others, Wanda Jackson, Bob Wills and Johnny Cash, along with a handful of originals that sounded as if they were written two or three decades ago. 

Quinn and the boys knocked out a nice little survey course in country music history with songs such as Jim Ed Brown's bouncy Pop a Top, Johnny Paycheck's A-11 and Cash's classic Folsom Prison Blues.

Best of the originals included Down in Washington,  a honky-tonkified look at the state of the union, the swingin' feel of (Ain't A) Texas Gal and the self-explanatory confessional Lottery Tickets, Cigarettes and Booze." 
 

Here's a review of the same show by Ted Samsel:
"Honky Tonk Confidential played the Barn Dance about a year ago and it was good to see these folks do another one of their fine traditional honkytonk sets. The bass player, my pal Geff King, had been trying to get me to barbeque for all the bands that evening before the show. I declined, for it would have made my surly teenaged chirren even surlier. Maybe next time and in the summer. But the good thing about the Dogtown is that it's close enough to my home to have someone take me home in a wheelbarrow, if I bring my own wheelbarrow. The best of all possible worlds, no?

With three lead singers who can write songs and a master of the double neck pedal steel, HTC can cover most of the honkytonk bases. They did some Johnny Cash, some Buck Owens (A-11, an early Johnny Paycheck tune), some Jim Ed Brown (POP A TOP AGAIN), some of Earnest Tubb and the lovely and talented Diana Quinn did Wanda Jackson's FUJIYAMA MAMA. They were even better than the last time I saw them and they even had a few new originals on tap. The Dogtown Lounge seems to be a much more amenable place to hear music devoted to two-steppin', beer-drankin' and lost love fraught with maudlin country-fried themes than Alley Katz."

CD REVIEW by Miles D. Moore on Amazon.com
"Honky Tonk Confidential" is country music at its best. 
 Most popular groups--country or otherwise--have one lead singer. Honky Tonk Confidential, a Washington, D.C.-based group, has three--all excellent. It's a matter of personal taste whether you'd prefer the warm, cheery, Patsy Cline-ish mezzo of Diana Quinn, or the rumbly, bourbon-soaked baritone of Mike Woods or the pure, sweet High Lonesome tenor of Geff King.

But in any case, they're all great, and they also write their own songs--all 13 numbers on their eponymous debut CD are originals, and they're all better than anything coming out of Nashville right now. King, the band's bassist and chief songwriter, has several songs on this album that in a just world would be country classics--including "Honky Tonk 101," about a lovelorn country boy getting his education in all the wrong places; "Down in Washington," a tongue-in-cheek lament about living in the Nation's Capital; and "I Don't Know If I Know," the sweet little Cajun two-step that closes the CD. Woods, the lead guitarist, shows impressive chops throughout the album, with expert assistance from Bobby Martin on pedal steel and Rob Howe on drums. 

In an age when Garth, Shania and LeAnn rule the airwaves, Honky Tonk Confidential harks back to a time when the Kings and Queens of Country had names like Hank, Buck, Merle and Patsy. People who love authentic country with a Texas swing/rockabilly slant should buy this CD immediately, and those who think they don't like country music should find themselves pleasantly surprised after listening to Honky Tonk Confidential."