Another Ticket was recorded at the Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas and features fellow guitarist and country legend, Albert Lee.

In a retrospective review for AllMusic, William Ruhlmann feels that the album is "star-crossed", "not too shabby", and while it "wasn't great Clapton" it should have got more notice than it did.

[2] Rolling Stone journalist John Piccarella notes: "Rita Mae” [...] is the only song on side two that’s not about dying.

As an artist often criticized for mellowing out, Eric Clapton has succeeded in making very popular music from an authentic and deeply tragic blues sensibility.

"[5] Record World said of the title track that "light keyboard melodies back Clapton's little tenor and the production is superb.