Liz Carlisle with Russell Wolff April 1, 2006

What critics have noticed in Carlisle's writing and stage presence is a powerful ability to erase the boundaries between country, pop, and acoustic music, red state and blue state. The Boston Globe calls Five Star Day "A collection of original songs that cull the twang and heart of country music, the soul-searching of folk, and the lift of pop." Northeast Performer wrote that "country might not be the word for Carlisle's sound; perhaps a more fitting term might be cross-country, as Carlisle brings her sound across the continent and back again." And Country Standard Time offered the following praise: "Whether writing about the "silver blue sky" of her native land ("Montana"), potentially life-changing decisions that appear out of the blue ("Don't Think Too Hard") or growing up in "Flyover Country" ("9/8 Central"), Carlisle's writing is crisp and insightful beyond her years and totally absent the narcissism and introspection that so often afflicts the modern singer-songwriter crowd."