Music critic for the Courier Journal called Rusty a jewel and a gritty guitarist.

Owner engineer of  Al Fresco’s Place Recording Studio said Rusty sounds like the love child of Wes Montgomery and Dick Dale.

Wrote in Leo Magazine –  Rusty has managed the tough task of assimilating lots of styles without being swallowed by any Jazzy uptown blues, to rockabilly.  You may even hear traces of Muscle Shoals or New Orlean’s funk.