 "Oh, My Girl is the soundtrack to loneliness,and rarely has a record sounded so quietly riveting or intense.... This is a beautiful, heartbreaking album. Country gothic at its bleakest and most starkly poignant." (Paste Magazine)
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 "Jesse Sykes has the perfect voice. It expresses longing, heartbreak, and existential loneliness with powerful understatement. Like Emmylou Harris in her Elite Hotel period with a half-a-pack-a-day habit or Cat Power's Chan Marshall on the right meds, Sykes has a silvery voice that frays in just the right places. Her noir-country on her excellent debut, Reckless Burning, is shaped with collaborator Phil Wandscher (Whiskeytown's best and most modest guitarist) and it carves out its own unique niche. The first three songs alone show the range within her consistent sound. From the molasses-slow unraveling of the title track to the mournful banjo of "Doralee" to the soaring ode to heartbreak on "Lonely Still," Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter find every shade of blue and discover redemption in looking loss right in the eye. Live, Sykes is a quiet storm, filling a room with her atmospheric songs and transforming the crowd. Standing around in a bar, hearing the gorgeous melancholy of "Drinking with Strangers" is as perfect as a moment can be." (Stranger)
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