Ben Cox - Juke Joint Soul
As a truly groundbreaking artist, Goldwasser has one foot in tradition and the other in expanding its boundaries. This album is a pure contemporary blues masterpiece that should be used as a blueprint for any other guitar-driven contemporary blues artist wanting to measure up with critics and fans.
Sherryl Crow - Music City Blues
"Bluju" definitely has Blues Award nominations written all over it!!
Lee Hildebrand - Living Blues
In the quarter century since his arrival in California, Goldwasser has not only lost his French accent when he speaks and sings, but he has mastered and internalized many different American blues guitar styles. Elements of West Coast masters Lafayette Thomas and Lowell Fulson inform Goldwasser’s stinging, fast-fingered fretwork, as do those of such other pickers as Hubert Sumlin, Matt Murphy, Pat Hare, Albert Collins, and Joe Louis Walker. He seldom apes their approaches, however, instead using them as raw ingredients from which to brew a personal, passion-filled musical stew of his own. His singing, though unremarkable, is consistently authoritative.
Gary Von Tersch - Blues and Rhythm
Here’s hoping this major label disc’s success leads to the impassioned French blues ambassador getting back in the studio as a leader again soon. His cosmopolitan, progressive slant on the idiom is a breath of fresh air and quite appealing to these lobes.
Dr. Blues - LI Blues Society News
Frank Goldwasser has a sound that's fat and chunky yet athletic and powerful. The rhythms rumble and throb like a steam loco and Frank's guitar is rapier sharp and clean while allowing silence to speak loudly, too. He sings with a West coast cool, sounding like a cross between New Orleans' Bryan Lee, soulster Finis Tasby and Jr. Wells.
Tom Clarke - Blues Review
Bluju marks Goldwasser¹s emergence as a world-class talent who writes,arranges, and sings with the same inventiveness that marks his guitar playing.
Joseph Jordan - Southland Blues
SIMPLY STUNNING: Parisian born Frank Goldwasser has put out the indy blues album of the year. His latest, "Bluju" is everything a record should be, inventive, truthful, filled with power and an absolutely exceptional level of musicianship. Frank, (known to many before as "Paris Slim") is an extraordinary talent. Still a young man, this brilliant guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and bandleader has been too little recognized nationwide with regard to his important contribution to West Coast Blues.
Though he takes his pages from the Oakland Blues Bible, Goldwasser has no problem playing the heretic to establish his own vision for the future of the blues.