“Part-time carpenter and art school grad Virgil Shaw’s music reflects his vocation the way Don Van Vliet’s manic paintings are echoed on Captain Beefheart records. Still Falling, Shaw’s second solo album, is both well-constructed and full of beautiful abstractions. Weird like Roky Erickson and soulful like Van Morrison, Shaw’s lyrics paint fanciful scenes that are loosely encased by clever, mid-tempo arrangements.” – Rolling Stone
“Country music has always been but a few liquor benders and a few bad breakups (and perhaps a nudge and a wink) from R&B, and Still Falling, with its almost inarticulate depths of emotion and the fervor with which both its despair and jubilation are conveyed, could often pass for either genre depending on which bar you happen to be hearing the music in.” 4 1/2 stars – All Music Guide
“Still Falling... from sparse and stunning to richly rendered and devastating.” – Magnet
“It makes no difference where Virgil Shaw may lay his head at night, his music does the traveling for him. Still Falling (mixes) Dixieland piano and horns with tunes that sound like they might be tumbling out of a saloon with horses hitched out front… Strangely timeless, Still Falling is a return to a history most of us never knew.” – CMJ
“Not unlike Hayden’s brilliant Skyscraper National Park, Virgil Shaw’s Still Falling will get into your bones. Every song is a gem in its own way. Brilliant, in the very real sense of the word.” – Ear Shot
“Shaw’s music is all about story telling in the way that Mark Eitzel or Tom Waits might… His voice is raw but extremely listenable. Think Giant Sand with a young Tom Waits singing. Yup, it is really impressive and the songwriting is top notch.” – Music Emissions