It was during this concert at the Minneapolis folk club Coffeehouse Extempore that Red House Records founder Bob Feldman heard and met Greg Brown.

The warmth, humor, deft phrasing, and compelling lyrics that his later albums display are all here.

Brown was already a great storyteller, a fine observer of the human condition, and a folk singer to be reckoned with.

"[1] Jim Musser of No Depression wrote of the album "Longtime Brown followers will, no doubt, rejoice at the availability of this glimpse of the nascent artist, just as relative newcomers may find its occasional shtick, devotion to folk conventions and more generic subject matter a bit off-putting.

In either case, the listener gets not only a fine folk outing, but a benchmark from which to measure the dramatic evolution of Brown’s development as a singer, writer and musician.