What the Critics are saying:

Jeff Clark from Stomp and Stammer says: (3/01/2010)
Betsy Franck and the Bareknuckle Band do a playful, soulful style of Southern roots music, steeped in the ingrained sounds of Memphis, Muscle Shoals, Macon, Nashville, New Orleans and other historically musically-rich regional locales. Impressively, Franck and crew manage to blend it all together in seamless fashion on their new CD, Still Waiting. She has a terrific voice, bleeding humid weariness and sultry determination at once, and the tunes match it note for organic note. Definitely a group to watch.

(Flagpole Magazine March 17 2010)
Locals Betsy Franck and the Bareknuckle Band straddle the line between barroom blues and alt-country on Still Waiting, the group’s sophomore release. The centerpiece of the group is frontwoman Franck’s soulful Southern vocals, which are on par with those of veterans like two-fisted country femme Shelby Lynne and former Little Feat vocalist Shaun Murphy. With her guitar slug across her shoulder, Franck is a powerhouse singer whose rough-edged, but nonetheless comforting, singing conveys the multitude of emotions rumbling ‘round in songs like the forlorn “City of Gold” and the swooning “Low Down,” a doo-wop influenced cut backed by the guest horn section of saxman Randall Bramblett, jazz trombonist Kevin Hyde, and J.R. Beckwith of the Athens Symphony Orchestra.


"Betsy Franck's gospel-strong and siren sweet voice will carry you safely over the personal turmoil that you'd normally approach like a patch of jagged asphalt. But beware: she can be as brutal as a bad stretch down a mountainside too. The Bare Knuckle Band is alt-country razorwire. Together they're as likely to save your soul as help you lose it over a game of pool with a dude named El-Diablo."
11th Hour, Macon, GA September 2006

"Athens songwriter Betsy Franck, at the tender age of 28, has a voice straght out of the Aretha Franklin School for the Blues Divas and the ability to play more than just a little guitar in a growing range of styles that you would think are a music promoters dream....surely Franck is someone that the music industry and the listening public should take into their hearts, minds, and homes."
Flagpole Magazine, Athens, GA January 2005

"The harmonies created by the blend of Franck's soulful blue vocals and the band's high country style fullfills their glorious potential...."
Flagpole Magazine, Athens, GA 2004