It features contributions from Mavis Staples, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Spooner Oldham, Gordie Johnson, Ry Cooder, Jim Spake and Jack Ashford.

[1] Doug Collette of All About Jazz found out that the album "hearkens back to The North Mississippi Allstars earliest and rootsiest records, but nevertheless represents a marked advance in maturity".

[2] AllMusic's Thom Jurek wrote that it "may have been recorded in response to death and birth but it is, more than anything else, a celebration of all that Jim Dickinson held dear in life and music, which are, after all, the same thing".

[4] David Fricke of Rolling Stone wrote: "deep roots, improvising valor and live-Cream brawn come easily to this trio.

[6] In a mixed review, Jim Caligiuri of The Austin Chronicle wrote: "more song-oriented than some past Allstars efforts and with an emphasis on country and gospel rather than the trio's gut-bucket blues, it wallops undeniable warmth even when the material itself veers from the Dickinsons' natural strengths".