"Guitarist Jameson Swagnon showed-off his goldmine of talent by performing both with Rad Cloud and Grand Lake. " (1/7/10, SF Weekly Blog).

"Guitarist Jameson Swanagon handles his with such tender precision, swiftly extracting notes handfuls at a time like a skilled surgeon from an open body." (6/09 Brion Echon, West Coast Performer Magazine)

"The Big Feet" manages to reconcile some of Swanagon's more adventurous minimal guitar/tape loop pieces with striking visuals and a morbid, horror-film sense of humor. The locus of the piece is at about the halfway point, as the camera pans across an empty California beach to the sound of warped bells. Swanagon himself struggles against the waves, his shirt inflated comically, his foot bound by a rope, and his deliberately convoluted guitars pointing in no particular tonal direction. (5/16/09 - D, Blog: Big States)

On (Nevermint) you'll swim through placid streams of slippery guitar strings . . .to the rougher waters of Jameson Swanagon's mangled, atonal guitar improvisations. (5/09 Brian Echon, West Coast Performer Magazine)

What really sells (Grand Lake) for me is Jameson Swanagon’s guitar work.   It’s twangy one moment, wild and expressive the next, and blissful at other times. (4/12/09 - Blog: Pasta Primavera)

Swanagon clearly knows his instrument well. The focus he maintains while playing is a joy to watch. But what is most striking about his guitar playing is his ability to break away from his technical knowledge and blaze his own trail with subtle, more rougher elements. (3/30/09 Blog: New and Used Records).

Sweeping, elegant guitar work. (3/28/09 The SF Deli)

The guitar solos can be messy and erratic but, again, mesmerizing in their frenetic qualities. (4/05 Glen Starkey, San Luis Obispo New Times)