"Songs by Honeybird has perfect pitch. McDade recreates the world of 1960s Southern rock, seamlessly mixing the mythic Honeybird’s highs and lows with Ben and Nina’s contemporary search for love, redemption, and above all, honesty."  

— Jessica Handler, author, The Magnetic Girl

"I really loved Peter McDade's Songs by Honeybird, a novel that simultaneously manages to be deeply funny, entirely serious, and quirky as hell. Told from the alternating perspectives of newly uncoupled Ben and Nina, we join their journey into the post-break up world, cheering them on as they dig deeper into their own pasts — as well as the past of the American South — aided by a cadre of good friends and mentors, loving but impossible families, a reincarnated talking dog, and the buried secrets that Ben's research into an integrated Southern band from the 1960s reveals. This is a book about old loves ending and new loves beginning, about the power of presence and attention — not to mention the power of good food and good music — and about the possibilities of the New South, as its varied inhabitants come to realize that to shine light on the traumas of the past allows for the creation of a more liberated future for us all." 

— Susan Rebecca White, author of We Are All Good People Here