“Pounds shows the depth of her lyricism in a literary style akin to the Southern Gothic of Flannery O’Conner. Her opening lines of the song could be those from one of the great Southern writer’s short stories and portend trouble as surely as a black cat crossing your path.”
-Mike Bernos, Arbus Magazine

“Jessica’s music is power and beauty rarefied and clarified through the alembic of vulnerability.  It’s honest and real and transcendent.”
-Tim Gilmore, Folio Weekly