"Unlike many other reissues from Craft, Abbey Is Blue contains no additional tracks, lavish booklets, or outtakes. You get the ten tracks originally released in 1959, with the artwork virtually unchanged. But as they say, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. As the album's co-producer, Orrin Keepnews, noted in the liner notes: "It is certainly the best singing by far that Abbey has done on record, and I think now - as I did much of the time while it was being recorded - that it stands up as among the most effective and moving albums that any singer has created in a long time." More than 60 years later, these words still ring true".