Press

The Voodoo Organist has received over 200 press articles and counting -- all without the help of a publicist. Articles have run in publications such as Rue Morgue magazine, Modern Drunkard magazine, The Austin Chronicle, Atlanta's Creative Loafing, and the Seattle Weekly. For a full press kit, contact Scott via the info on the contact page. Following are some selected press quotes:

• "Tearing out of the high desert like some demonic hell-ride, Scott Wexton is otherwise known as the Voodoo Organist, an organ-pounding, whiskey-loving, demented disciple of Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Tom Waits and Anton LaVey." Eugene Weekly, 3.26.09
• "With heavy organ grinding more befitting a '70s slasher flick than Sunday morning church service, the goth-industrialism upon which Voodoo Organist main-man Scott Wexton cut his teeth in the 90s isn't far removed from the demonic carnival barking he's doing now." Nashville Scene, 4.09.09
• "VO kicks out a powerful sound that devilishly rollicks between genres and styles." Omaha Reader, 5.1.08
• "Darwin Dance Hall Days is the album that should bring the Voodoo Organist out of underground purgatory." Rue Morgue magazine, November, 2008
• "The Voodoo Organist (Scott Wexton) is one of the best live entertainers you can see. He's a stunningly charismatic frontman, which is saying a lot because he's seated playing a motley of instruments during his entire performance." Sepiachord.com, 9.24.08
• "The Voodoo Organist (a.k.a. Scott Wexton) is a demonic lounge singer, a dapper madman who travels from town to town to preach an evil sermon. He grinds the organ like a church lady on acid, spewing his gravelly lyrics, beckoning his audience to follow." Knoxville's Metro Pulse, 5.24.07
• "Every once in a while you catch an act that warrants the phrase, "Trust me, you've never seen anything like this." And I'm here to tell you people that you ain't never seen anything remotely like the Voodoo Organist." (Medford, OR) Mail Tribune, 4.20.07
• "Hunched over his Hammond organ, brow creased in concentration as one hand works the keys and the other hovers like a magician's over the spooky, ghost-like moaning of a theremin, growling out such bluesy gospel odes to the underworld as "I'll Be Your Devil Tonight" and "The Serpent Dance," he's a vision of diabolical, fashion-concious evil, a mirror universe cross between Tom Waits and the Cramps who took the Robert Johnson shortcut to material gain." (San Antonio, TX) Current, 10.04.06
• "On the new Serpent Dance, Wexton's a thrill-seeker and smart aleck, a busker in the red light district, a preacher who's one altar-wine bender away from a straight jacket and padded cell...Preach on, brother Wexton, preach on." (Detroit, MI) Metro Times, 4.19.06
• "Mighty weird. Good weird." (Madison, WI) Isthmus, 9.16.05
• "Wexton is the guy you'd expect to see grinding his organ in the entryway of Tim Burton's mansion - a humorously sinister combination of Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Lux Interior of the Cramps and Lon Cheney." (Albuquerque, NM) Alibi, 2.03.05
• "The Return of the Voodoo Organist" is by far one of the most unique albums I've ever heard." (Lansing, MI) The State News, 4.29.04
• "Sitting behind a portable organ from the '70s, the Detroit native sounds more like Jim Morrison churning his way through tent-revival numbers, jazzy blues, cha-cha and the occasional gothic waltz - while manning maracas and a theremin." (Denver, CO) Westword, 6.03.04
• "A versatile instrument, the organ can add an angelic glow to hymns, an eerie hum to horror movies, and seedy soul to gritty garage rock. In the hands of Scott Wexton, the Voodoo Organist, it achieves all of these objectives on a single album, Exotic Demonic Blues." (Kansas City, MO) The Pitch, 6.05.03
• "The Voodoo Organist's haunted funhouse sound is like nothing you've ever heard before...in this world anyway." (Spokane, WA) The Local Planet Weekly, 1.23.03
• "Rise up and lay praise to the great lord and master of the theremin, the Voodoo Organist! A bizarro horror hipster keen on spook-house blues, Scott A. Wexton is the soulful circus barker behind Exotic Demonic Blues, a jolly carnival cabaret of steel drums and synthesized chicanery designed to steer your conga-line straight to hell." Rue Morgue magazine, October 2003
• "Exotic Demonic Blues is this year's premier bizarro exotica record. This album, solely the work of Los Angeleno Scott Wexton, sounds like the devil stole the Reverned Horton Heat's guitar and dumped him in hell's recording studio with organs, synthesizers and a sampler." (Las Vegas, NV) Mercury, 9.12.02