"That track's spare backing stands in sharp contrast to the rest of the album, much of which employs a grungy, high-energy approach (built around Welch's own distorted guitar lines) that is quite effective on songs such as 'Girl in the Holler' and 'I Don't Know Her Name', with their echoes of Hill Country trance blues ... But, on some tracks, the wall of sound put up by Jimbo Mathus and his cohorts threatens to drown out Welch's vocals, powerful though they may be ... Welch's sophomore effort should rank among the year's best albums of traditional blues".