The Wall Street Journal has listed Ashton Shepherd in their Year-End Wrap-Up:

"Ashton Shepherd
'Sounds So Good'
Mercury/$13.98

"The most promising debut of 2008 came from this young woman from Alabama who writes her own tuneful songs about housewives with kids to contend with, nights out to recover from, and husbands who may or may not recognize their worth or do them any good. (The man she admires in her 'Regular Joe,' it should be noted, is a better-than-average adult, not a patronized, more-average-than-thou 'Joe the Plumber.') The songmaking suggests the possibility that we've got a very smart observer of the down-home married woman's lot here, a potential Loretta Lynn for a new generation. The evocative singing -- generally soaring only where it counts -- makes for strong listening right now, and there are fiddles and pedal steel."