"[4] In a review for Red Bull Music Academy, Jon Dale called Alabama Feeling "a particularly staggering set of fearless group improvisation", and wrote that it was "surprising for some of the instrumental approaches, particularly with the electric bass.

While in a jazz context, this often screams 'fusion,' Richard Williams’s grunting attack on the instrument is unhooked from formal constraints, playing with all the unchecked rawness and limber physicality of Doyle's roaring, gutbucket sax, and the sea-sick whinnying of Charles Stephens' trombone.

"[8] Thurston Moore included Alabama Feeling in his "Top Ten From The Free Jazz Underground" list, first published in 1995 in the second issue of the defunct Grand Royal Magazine.

[citation needed] Moore called the album a "lo-fi masterpiece" and a "spiraling cry of freedom and fury", stating that Doyle made "mystic music which took on the air of chasing ghosts and spirits through halls of mirrors".

[9]) Clifford Allen called the album "raw and quite fuzz-laden in fidelity", having "an almost ethnographically field-recorded vibe, as though energy music and free improvisation could be documented as an expressionistic ritual".

He wrote: "Although it may at first seem like an utterly white-hot mass of sound, Alabama Feeling ebbs and flows with a natural, conversational quality, in which soupy funk and charged energy playing are equal partners.