[1][2][3] The album was reissued in 1981 on Fantasy Records as a double LP compilation titled How Many More Years I Got, with additional tracks from the sessions.

[citation needed] AllMusic reviewer Nathan Bush stated: "The players here are extremely loose, betraying a casual interest in the task at hand.

They sound like a group of borrowed session men, but were in fact a small combo familiar both with each other and Hopkins himself.

... the performances hardly approach the level of Hopkins' solo sides from the period, let alone his best work".

[4] The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings wrote that the album "break[s] away from the guitar-only format and on several tracks call in friends like Pickens (playing on what would be his last session)".