"Lot's of energy and a footstomping devotion to real delta blues" - Catfish Keith, Fishtail Records

"...Haupt wrestles Delta Blues from his Martin guitar like a man with an alligator on his hands" - The Southeast Missourian

"...Don Haupt plays the blues like it's the only thing keeping him sane" - Mike Dronkers, Music Director KHUM/FM

"Haupt's music recalls swampy bayous and late night poker games played in smoky bars. The sould he evokes while
playing is obviously rooted deep in the soil of early American culture" - The Times Standard

"Not peppy, rocking modern 'blues' music but pure raw backporch swamps of Louisiana blues. Don Haupt is so
genuine he has moss hanging off him" - The Arcata Eye

"He unleashes relentless slide guitar licks and punishes the floor with a stomping foot" - The Northern Lights

"bluesman Don Haupt stomped his feet on the stage while simutaneously pounding out the beat on the back of his National
steel guitar, the crowd transfixed as he growled and hollered out an acapella field holler" - The North Coast Journal