"With an 85-minute runtime, it covers most most of the musical themes and narrative fixations McCombs has drawn upon since his 2003 debut. Since that time, he's quietly become one of America's finest chroniclers of fringe characters, a writer of heart-rending love songs and psychedelic odes to the natural world, a teller of tall-tales with a sense of humor dry as desert wood, and that rare folksinger who actually sings about the folk".