Charles McCollester Director, Pennsylvania Center for the Study of Labor relations Indiana University of Pennsylvania

If there can be such a thing as an apocalyptic love song, Mike Stout’s most recent album Break the Chains is it. His latest offering is a mix of a few earlier songs with new arrangements, and new songs that mix expressions of love and pleas for solidarity with dire warnings of coming disaster without humanity’s awakening to revolutionary change.

By Paul Carosi, RadioFreeTunes.com

Mike Stout, the World's Grievance Man, is a socially conscious singer song-writer and community leader. Stout leads crusades against local and global economic injustice rallying people with his music and organizes them to take action.

By John Hayes, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Mike Stout doesn't beat around the Bush. He's mad as hell about the war in Iraq, and he's not gonna take it anymore.  On his eighth politically charged, self-released album, the 54-year-old Pittsburgher wages a shock and awe campaign that he calls "War and Resistance."

By DAVID SALLINGER, Daily News Entertainment Editor     07/05/2002

Stout's new CD celebrates 'Human Spirit' Mike Stout has a niche, and that's kinda too bad. He actually should be heard by those comfortably ensconced in other niches, not just by those who see him as a champion for the working class.

Saturday, June 23, 2001     By Scott Mervis, Weekend Editor, Post-Gazette

There are a lot of guys out there who pass themselves off as blue-collar rockers, but Mike Stout is unquestionably the real thing.  The singer-songwriter, who releases his new CD, "Working Infinity ... Love from the Bottom," at the Club Cafe tonight, was not only a steel worker for 10 years, but he also was the last grievance chairman at the Homestead Works.