[8] Jewly Hight of NPR Music said that: "Moving easily between idioms — tragic Scots-Irish balladry; gospel-blues repetition; earthy, narrative detail; dreamily poetic imagery — she teases out the album's subtle, animating tension.

There's such a light, sympathetic touch to her accompaniment that the arrangements feel like they sprout from the moods she sets.

And the homey production, achieved with the help of her longtime collaborator and multi-instrumentalist Craig Ross, at least partly stems from the fact that they recorded at her house in Austin".

It added that it was "an album of quiet grace, determination, survival and self-identity, this serves as a reminder of her status among the Americana greats".

[14] In a four-star review, Joe Breen of The Irish Times stated that "It is an intense, frequently beautiful, often challenging album that builds on her strengths as a singular singer-songwriter in, respectively, the folk, gospel and Americana idioms and as a resilient character never afraid of her own voice".