[2] The selections included well-known country songs by Johnny Cash ("I Walk the Line", "Folsom Prison Blues"), Merle Haggard ("Sing Me Back Home"), George Jones ("Tender Years") and Pee Wee King (Tennessee Waltz).

[8] Writing in Billboard magazine in December 2003, Dan Ouellette listed the album among his choice of the best CDs that "slipped under most radar screens" during the year and described it as a "country-meets-jazz gem".

[9] In his contemporary review for All About Jazz, Julian Derry admired the free-form and improvisational performances over the more faithful readings of the source material.

"[10] Writing in JazzTimes, John Murph praised Harrison's "distinctive compositional acumen" and especially his guitar playing beside Jones' vocal on "I Walk the Line", as well as his own singing on the country ballads "Lonesome Road Blues" and "Tender Years".

He added of "Folsom Prison Blues": "Harrison gives his most rollicking guitar performance on disc, slashing out dissonant rockabilly with gleeful abandonment.

For me, it became a metaphor for how we have to remember to look at the US with fresh, probing eyes and understand that America is a work in progress, subject to a variety of affectionate interpretations.