Elektra Records later reissued it with new cover art under the title The Road to Cairo.

[2] Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and the Trinity covered "The Road to Cairo" shortly after the album's release.

In the early-1970s, Spooky Tooth and The Hollies would cover "Down River."

Described by music historian Richie Unterberger as Ackles' "most rock-oriented record",[6] it garnered faint praise from Rolling Stone critic Arthur Schmidt, who complained of thin melodies but who nevertheless described Ackles as "one of the best singers I've ever heard".

[7] Music critic Pete Johnson wrote that "his singing and writing talents create a beautiful LP, 10 songs whose quality never falters", and also noted that "much of the album is gloomy, songs of evaporated love, the fearful lure of a nonexistent home, a painful meeting between one-time lovers and the loss of faith, but he breaks the dark spell with a couple of optimistic numbers".