Blues Revue Thomas J. Cullen lllApril\u002FMay 2003USA Few singers on the current scene blend the sensual and the spiritual as effortlessly as Mighty Sam McClain; Solomon Burke and Otis Clay come to mind, but neither has released anything comparable to McClain’s prolific output in the past decade. His transcendent music blurs the distinction between the sacred and the secular. McClain thinks One More Bridge To Cross is his best album. Amen to that. Ice MagazineBill Wasserzieher(in Blues unlimited section, this is just a short blurb)January 2003 Mighty Sam McClain, who has modeled his career after Bland, has launched his own label after recording several W.C. Handy Award-nominated albums for Audioquest and Telarc. McClain’s imprint, Mighty Music, debuts with “One More Bridge To Cross”. City LinkBob WeinbergFebruary 2003(South Florida Newspaper) Soul-blues doesn’t get much better than this. On “Why Do We Have To Say Goodbye,” the opening track to Mighty Sam McClain’s latest recording, the singer’s powerful, aching voice – which occasionally echoes that of his hero Bobby Blue Bland, especially when he lets loose with that raspy glottal cry and bellows “why, why, why, why, why” at song’s end – plumbs the very depths of loss and despair, creating that rare, cathartic magic that lovers of soul-blues crave with almost sadistic longing. One More Bridge To Cross is McClain’s declaration of independence. A tremendously powerful and personal reflection from one of the best soul-blues practitioners alive, One More Bridge To Cross is evidence that McClain picked the right producer.