"Fever Breaks is his 10th album in 20 years and sees him further hone his deft Americana/folk/pop songwriting skills, fused with his "if it ain't broke don't fix it" approach ... The tunes may reference influences (Old Black Magic to Bob Dylan, The Torch Committee to Leonard Cohen, Losing Battles to Ryan Adams, Blazing Highway Home to Bruce Springsteen), but here's the kicker: they're infused with first-rate lyrics typical of a person who majored in American history through narrative folk music".