"Quite a few of these songs are build on the kind of single-chord, modal theme usually associated with hill country blues, although they're mostly updated with a spiky propulsiveness borrowed from modern rock and R&B ... Other outings, such as the minor-key title song, are more musically adventurous. Burnside is an expressive singer, capable of summoning an almost terrifying sense of desolation and then cutting into declamatory fierceness without missing a beat ... The north Mississippi hill country blues legacy is in good hands".