"There's something of his dad Ry's lightly worn musicology about Joachim Cooder's Nonesuch debut. A buoyant and joyful long-player that gives props to the collected songs of Uncle Dave Macon, country music progenitor and Grand Ole Opry star of the early 20th century, it includes vaudeville tunes, folk songs and spirituals .. Dad guests on banjo, guitar and bass, and Rayna Gellert's fiddle playing shines, but the all-important twist is the welcome ubiquity of Joachim's electric mbira, a chipper relative of the African thumb piano, which can twinkle like a Fender Rhodes or chink like a gamelan ensemble".