"The album couldn't have a better opener than "Hidden Charms." Not only does the performance illustrate how effortlessly this music comes to Big Head Todd & The Monsters, et. al., but the song itself depicts how artfully Willie Dixon wrote meaning between the lines in his lyrics and, at the same time, applied a twist to reliable blues changes to transform them into fresh progressions ... the Big Head Blues Club exhibits its intuitive savvy to recognize the value of saying your piece and moving on, a pragmatic premise the group applies to each of the baker's dozen tracks on Way Down Inside".