[2] Rolling Stone, in a review of the album, noted that the song featured "Ginger Baker's highly innovative percussion" and judged the lyric "...I'm wasted and I can't find my way home" to be "delightful".

One of the earliest to cover the track was Eric Clapton who tapped Yvonne Elliman to sing the song during his 1976–77 concert tours.

[6] A bootleg recording with Raitt, Lowell George, John P. Hammond and Freebo has more than five million views on YouTube.

[7] In 1989, American band Swans covered the song in their album The Burning World with Jarboe providing the vocals.

[10] In 2018, Australian-American singer Rachael Price covered the song on Live from Here with Chris Thile on mandolin.