“Roman is not only an expert finger stylist, but she has the touch of the instrument. Like a master, she can coax the most beautiful sounds out of the guitar that it is able to give... I'm convinced that Roman is one of the people who will make sure that blues music stays alive, in the eyes and ears of his generation, and beyond.”
- Guy Davis
“Running into someone like Roman gives me great hope for both the preservation and understanding of the Meaning of the Blues. She is a prodigy, and she is also humble in the face of what she knows she still must learn.”
- Andy Cohen
“Took me right back to John Fahey's deep- Thinking tone.”
- Greil Marcus
“Roman Barten-Sherman has, in a very short time, mastered the stylistic techniques of the early Delta blues guitarists and has reconfigured them into her own compositional work. With her combination of open chordal structure and fingerpicking, its easy to make old and tired comparisons to the groundbreaking work of John Fahey but I think that’s looking in the wrong direction. Roman’s story is just beginning and its evident that the future of the American primitive style is in good hands if it needs to be. I have a feeling, however, that Roman will take us to places that haven’t been mapped out yet. It's a frightening thought … in the best possible way.”
- Sir Richard Bishop
