"With stunning insight and honesty, Wells speaks upon the disillusion of dreams, the realization of new ones, the reality of the pitfalls of the rock and roll fantasy, and does so with cutting clarity and poetic facility."
- Saving Country Music

"The songs Wells sang, pulled mostly from his debut solo album Dawn in the Distance, were deceptive. They may have been lighter in tone, but they crackled with a massive spirit, one that wore the trials and triumphs of band life like bloodied badges of honor."
- Kentucky.com

"If [Dawn in the Distance] is not an autobiographical journal, Wells is a damn good actor, because you believe every word. There's so much real passion and projected emotion, you'd be a cold soul to come away from listening to this without being affected."
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