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Time Out NY attests, Brooklyn's "My Cousin, the Emperor makes happily gnarly music; the band's debut album, A Long Way from Home, trades in rolling country rock & roll." My Old Kentucky Blog calls it, "Filled to the brim with both alone-in-the-pouring-rain ballads and throw-me-another-whiskey barroom romps" and Under the Radar Magazine declares, "My Cousin, The Emperor stands up for all that's still right with the genre of country."

Jason Reischel, a North Carolina native, mixes his country music roots and the grit of NYC with the help of Terry Quire on lead guitar, Michael Feinberg on bass and Danny Wolf on drums.

“They say the Devil is in the details, but God is in there too...It's those little details that can make or break a song, and I hear those details in My Cousin, The Emperor's songs."
- John Schaefer, Soundcheck WNYC