"A walk through the wet woods, a trip down a river, or a wander down a long dirt road are all journeys that might be taken while listening to Dame Satan - most likely alone and maybe a little lost. On Ghost Mansion, guitars, banjo, piano, and harmonica all lay a warm grassy bed for a shared circle of folk songs. It is traditional but immediate; sprouted from daily life as well as an easy-going sense of place. Much like Califone, Songs: Ohia, and Iron & Wine, Dame Satan make music together that makes you feel like you belong where you are, whether it's actually out in the country or in the middle of a city. They come from San Francisco (and acknowledge this with a song named "the Golden Gate"), and yet the strongest imagery that comes to mind upon listening is more akin to the title of the album than any mention of a real city: things like spirits, fields, the jagged backs of mountains and giants, and lonely in-between landscapes." --Fense Post Reviews (July 2006 Album review)

"Ever heard music that makes you desperately try to remember if youd innocuously eaten a brownie earlier that could have been, ahem, herbally enhanced? Dame Satans music had that effect. The instrumentation was boilerplate Americana--acoustic guitars, banjos, resonator guitars, bass and maybe even a mandolin--but the execution was closer to chamber music meets jazz. The influences, among them British folk, English post-psychedelic blues rock, spare Delta blues and the sort of weird Americana the Grateful Dead sometimes hinted at, melded into an original whole whose presence was rather startling. The four members played off each other like ancient jazz bodhisattvas, and there was a conscious awareness and manipulation of the spaces between the notes, again more a jazz trait than an element common to more straightforward genres like bluegrass or country. The overall effect is easy to recall. Its like that time you got really buzzed and played guitar in the stairwell and sang, and you heard yourself sounding like something from another dimension." --Jackson Griffith, Sacramento News and Views (June 2006 Live Review)