While speaking of Davey Graham's travels in Morocco "where he came across a tuning used on an exotic, North African string instrument.

"[2] Andy Ellis of Guitar Player magazine stated "There are many skilled solo-acoustic guitarists making CDs today, but few can match Sparks' verve and intensity.

On this live and natural-sounding record, we hear a restless, probing mind, rather than a series of refined techniques.

"[3] The June 2000 issue of Down Beat magazine gave a favorable review stating: "While Sparks' music includes jazz and world music sensibilities, the overall thrust to this set of original compositions (minus one) suggests a blend of folksy, backwoods fingerpicking that's strongly melodic and very intimate.

The pacing is very good, and Sparks' fingerstyle, musical sleight-of-hand has one hearing classical technique one moment, flat-out blues the next.