Americana-uk.com | Summer 2006
This livewire five piece wears their country influences on tasseled sleeves like mementoes from the golden age when The Burritos and Commander Cody were the barstool idols. Read the entire review

Georgia Music Magazine | Summer 2006
These guys revel in alt-country...this is one album that will be equally enjoyed by hipsters and honky-tonkers alike. Entire review coming soon.

Country Standard Time | August 2006
On their self-titled full-length, the Atlanta quintet plays unmistakable country music,. Read the entire review

Sunday Paper | February 19, 2006
The band’s self-titled debut of easy-on-the-ears Americana simultaneously uplifts and laments, filled with homespun tales of long-distance love, long train rides and barstool confessionals. The lonesome AM-radio vibe of traditional country rubs elbows with the galloping rhythms and Telecaster twang of Old 97's and, at times, the tattered vitriol of Uncle Tupelo. Read the entire review

Creative Loafing | February 23, 2006
National Grain plays real country music. Not pop masquerading as alt-country or adult contemporary pretending to be Nashville country, but honest-to-goodness, tears-in-your-beer country music. National Grain's self-titled debut swings and burns, from the blurry disorientation of "City Lights" to the brokenhearted "Whiskey, Wine, and Beer," with poetic, true-life confessions that belie the music's frequently uptempo beat. Read the entire review

Atlanta Journal-Constitution | February 23, 2006
This local quintet's 2004 five-song demo twanged with authority. Now they step it up a notch with a self-titled full-length debut and a batch of songs to justify those Gram Parsons and Uncle Tupelo comparisons. "Some Kind of Devil" convincingly cranks up the rock, but it's those deeply country tunes draped in pedal steel ("Pretty Women Won't Give Me the Time of Day" and "Whiskey, Wine & Beer") that keep the tears and beers flowing.

Performer Magazine | May 2006
National Grain is true blue honky tonk. With the release of their first studio-crafted self-titled effort last month, the band is ready to conquer the road with their jangly and twangy Southern rock. Read the entire review

Paste Magazine | May 2005
These sweeping, echo-y, steel guitar-blanketed slow dance tunes and country-rock stompers come highly recommended for fans of Gram Parsons and Commander Cody.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution | October 2005
(One of) Atlanta's best Americana-flavored outfits.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Twangs with authority and shares the toe-tapping shuffle and melodic sensibility of the texas quartet Old 97's, and their pedal-steel swathed songs sound like lost country classics.

Creative Loafing
National Grain offers a full, undiluted serving of its patented pure-grain elixir. The potent potable includes equal parts George Jones, Uncle Tupelo and the prerequisite Replacements flavoring for a fizzy aftertaste.

Flagpole Magazine
Highly-melodic alt-country band from Atlanta. The group's self-titled, cleanly recorded five-song EP is as easy-going as a rattly Uncle Tupelo cassette on a humid morning.