"... Tastefully mixed by Spencer Crewe and Bob Hallett, Lifting Out the Stove is a wonderful melding of generational musical sensibilities. A splendid player, Vince Collins' rich heritage of dance melodies is infused with contemporary life through the harmonic subtleties of Glen's modern chord voicings, never obtrusive but often compelling."

... More than the music alone, Vince provides the social contexts of music making in St. Anne's through a series of brief but fascinating reminiscences collected by Monique Tobin, a feature that will make Lifting Out the Stove useful to educators ... A particularly interesting narrative depicts melodic composition at sea. Appropriately entitled, "Get Me the Accordion Quick," the story concerns a fisherman, who, on his return voyage from an active day of work, composed a tune by humming and drifting into "singsong." Preoccupied with the melody on his arrival at shore, the fisherman quickly played his composition on the accordion and as Vince reports, "They say he never lost it! He used to play it for square dances and everything!"

... Lifting Out the Stove provides us with a fine introduction to a marvelous Newfoundland musician. It will appeal to all fans of traditional Newfoundland music and perhaps spark the interest of those who will be discovering this heritage and Vince Collins for the first time."

- Peter Narvaez, The Measure