In Tune
Sing Out! Vol. 40 #3, 1995
This is a quirky album, one with a raw quality and seemingly unformed resentments. However, with repeated listens, it is evident that this is a pure work of art: unhesitatingly fervent, unflinchingly personal and reflecting the diversity of a real person's musings.

The storytelling is crisp, innovative and captivating, from the anti-nuke balladry of "They Lied" to the cultural isolationism of a musician who learned Latin chops from jazzmen and only recalls, through a drug-hazed memory - anothe rlegacy from the musician mentors - a highlight of playing onstage behind Joe Papp's Shakespeare.

The songs also abound with pithy lines among quotidian/everyman settings. A favorite is "There's no such thing as fair" from "Somebody Help This Woman," a different twist on the plight of the poor homeless. Neither social worker-ish polemic nor politically correct pedagogy, this tune alone is worth the price of the recording. -- LP

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We Were There
the folknik, Vol. XXXIV, Number 1 January/February 1998

This album is a tribute to women workers of the past. The album takes us through women’s labor history from slavery through the cotton mills of the south, organizing miners in Kentucky to the sweatshops in New York City with the “Triangle Shirtwaist Factor Fire:. Bev Grant ends the tape with a plea for something new and better to happen, with “The Ones Who’ve Gone Before Us”.

Bev’s new tape has heralded the birth of an exciting new women’s anthem, the title song of the album, “We Were There”. It is stirring and with Bev’s strong, passionate delivery, extremely moving and inspiring. It is a song that I will be singing and teaching to my labor studies classes for many a year to come. – Pat Wynne

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In Tune and We Were There: Songs of Working Women’s History
Economic Security Project Web Site

A powerful woman, with a voice to match. “Mama never said a word,” she sings, “but I’m gonna be heard.” In her compositions, showcased on In Tune, the cultures of Brooklyn, her home, ripple and commingle. In contrast, the songs on We Were There are by other people (including trad.), except for the title cut which is “an exciting new women’s anthem, stirring and inspiring” (Pat Wynne).