These songs weren’t cranked out of some gentrified Nashville writer’s room. There’s nothing imagined here. These songs are the real deal: calluses and blisters, dust, dirt and sweat."
Grant Peeples

The ride through all the music was everything from Santana-like, hard – driving songs to the stark naked guitar/vocal tracks and everything in between. Her words spell such raw honesty that you would swear you were right there inside every song. A witness to the beauty, but also the hard knocks in life, she dances in the company of artists like Tony Jo White, Ry Cooder and Bobby Gentry. But only Holly Renee Allen can dish out her own story songs like nobody’s business, in RED DIRT SOUL, her current cd.
Jean Anne Chapman Richardson - North Georgia Leisure Magazine