Armstrong's sweet voice and emotional songs will move anyone within earshot. - Hector Saldana, San Antonio Express-News
This woman is one of the best I've seen. - Caroline Aiken, Songwriter
Armstrong knows her way around her tiny parlor guitar, and projects a new confidence on stage, coupled with a soft vulnerability. It's a wonderful combination and the audience took to her like bees to a huneypot. - Nancy Terzian, Yoga Journal
Songs about real life sung with passion and precision. - Steve Seskin, Grammy winning songwriter
Caren Armstrong is one of those rare musicians who plays and sings music from it's bones on out. Her writing, singing and playing are all enormously skillful of course, but combined those elements add up to much more than their sum. Caren's work has a visceral and deeply satisfying impact, which is invariably garnished with great good humor. Delicious music. - Steve Coyle of The Waybacks
Caren has found a deeply original voice that the listener experiences as coming from within. - concert promoter Russ Jennings
Spans the distance between progressive folk and oldtimey country in a fresh, nontraditional way. - Dave Stafford , KKUP 91.5FM
Skillfully blending the sounds and styles of Sheryl Crow, the Indigo Girls, and Natalie Merchant, Armstrong may in fact be independent, but she's strong enough to hold her own with the best of mainstream women rockers. - Mish Mash Indie Music Reviews ; see Mish Mash for the full review.
Her style is all lightness and fluidity, graced with the sultry sway of jazz and the persuasiveness of some very intricate guitarwork. - Annie Lin of Go Girls Music ; the full review is at: gogirlsmusic.com .
Her guitar playing and music writing is influenced by the folk and acoustic music of years past, and is on the cutting-edge of today's great acoustic/folk music. Combine that with deep, soulful lyrics, and you get a CD that is one of the best female folk CDs of the year. - Erik Deckers of Indie-Music.com ; for the full review see: Indie-Music.com
The folk songs are the meat of Independent Girl. 'Don't Go to Sleep,' 'I Feel Your Love,' 'It's a Long Long Way,' 'Slipping Away' and 'Leaving Lincoln County' are all beautiful songs that wholly express a variety of emotions with a striking efficiency and fusion of melody and lyrics. The rare combination is solidly evident in Caren's songwriting. - Valerie Fasimpaur of Rambles ; the full review is at: Rambles.net