"San Marcos, Texas musician Lynn Crossett has a new album out, Autumn to August. Surrounding himself with respected Texas musicians Lloyd Maines, Dennis Ludiker and Carter Crossett, Lynn has ensured a rich quality band sound on the album. … Lynn laces together nostalgic storytelling and rootsy instruments with a welcoming ease.
“Something in Your Day” opens the album spaciously with banjo and melodious pedal steel that sound like they’ve floated in on the breeze in a pure state. The song is a gently loving homage to someone he’s known since childhood as he recounts tales from growing up: “you were something in our day.” The connection is strong throughout years of self-discovery.
On “Could’ve Been the Wine” there are piano runs and a shaker in this song of deep realizations and resolutions: “could’ve been the wine, could’ve been a memory, could’ve been a thousand things to catch your eye / what in the world’s come over me?” The guitar melodies are open and memorable. Lynn wrote this one while observing folks in an airport bar, but with the intimate feel it might well have been written for his best friend.
“Refinery Town” starts with a count off and plucked melodies, and it’s a heartland rock number with prominent fiddle, muscular harmonica, shaker, and the ominous feeling that you need to get out of an oil boom town. Or not. An ode to Port Arthur, Texas, this one considers the question: What if you don’t go as a kid, you don’t go to college, and you stay to raise a family? “It’s safe to bet now that I’ll never leave.” “Great Big World” tackles this topic again, from another angle: that of road tripping, and searching the great big world. This song was written for Lynn’s father.
On the title track, “Autumn to August” we’re confronted with that sinking feeling we get when we note the passage of time, as the upbeat song chronicles another road traveler who needs to make amends. The bright guitar tones (a 12 string guitar?) are excellent as they create melodies out of up and down runs. “Same Old Shoes” addresses the passage of time, the mind numbing nature of the same old routine, and the pure joy in something special on a Saturday night: “polished and bright for Saturday night / if you count the years it doesn’t come out right / you spent a lifetime in the same old shoes.” The harmonica takes some melodies here with a shuffly beat and pedal steel and the result will have you tapping your toes and commiserating at the same time.
Lynn Crossett pens songs about longtime friendships, realizations that come on over time, and that nagging sensation that finding yourself isn’t about where you reside, or where you roam. They’re all brewed in a Texas style Americana."
- Elise Cady, Americana Highways (https://americanahighways.org/2025/06/17/review-lynn-crossett-autumn-to-august)
“San Marcos, Texas/California songman Lynn Crossett wisely chose Lloyd Maines as producer for his recent release, In the Company of a Song. Sonically, the album floats gently between Folk and Country, never completely falling under the banner of either genre as it presents the music of Lynn Crossett to comfortably fit in to multiple tastes. Lynn sets up as a busker on a California boardwalk for opening track “Stay Awhile” while he offers a personal resume over a myriad of strings in “Best of Me” as memories of younger days make a storyline for “Child Support Trips”. In the Company of a Song voices its title track as a late-night Folk jam while somber shadows color the melodies taking a “California Ride”. Lynn Crossett introduces “Warren and Whitney” on a spry Folk Country sway while describing “Dignity and Grace” with a filter of self-reflection, exiting In the Company of a Song walking a “Boulevard” of crushed dreams backdropped by air pollution, purple mountain majesty, and the concrete riverbeds of Southern California.”
"In the Company of a Song is Lynn’s first professionally recorded album, released in April 2022. It was produced by Grammy Award winning alt-country legend Lloyd Maines and features not only the producer’s signature steel guitar work but also fiddle and mandolin by Dennis Ludiker (Asleep at the Wheel, Milkdrive) and harmony vocals by HalleyAnna Finlay Welch on two songs ('Warren and Whitney' and 'Child Support Trips'). The album contains a wide range of lyrical and musical themes, based on Lynn’s keen observations of life. Because he divides his time between his home base in Texas and Southern California, it also features a number of coastal-inspired tunes, like the tale of a busker on the Santa Monica Pier in the first song ('Stay Awhile'), and images of Los Angeles in 'Boulevard.' "
- Dan Walsh, Americana Rhythm Music Magazine (November 2022)
“Hailing from the music hotbed of Austin, Texas, singer-songwriter Lynn Crossett scored a spot on the Top 10 Americana Country Album Chart with his 2023 release, In the Company of a Song. Crossett frequently brings his road show to venues in southern and central California. Two of his songs, “California Ride” and “Child Support Trips,” were under consideration for 2024 Grammy nominations in Best Americana Performance, Best American Roots Performance, and Best American Roots Song. He’s planning his next album for 2025, which Grammy award-winning producer Lloyd Maines will produce. Those aren’t the only impressive facts in his bio; Crossett is also a full-time law professor at Texas State University in San Marcos.”
- Dan Emerson, Good Times Santa Cruz - 2024
