Senior contributor of All About Jazz, C. Michael Bailey, rated the album five stars and wrote:There is nothing remotely retro about the music or its production.

Turner seamlessly updates the music with which he has been associated for fifty years, advancing the causes of Robert Cray, Little Milton, Otis Rush and Buddy Guy with burping electric bass, sinewy lead guitars and horns aplenty.

[4] Reviewing the album for AllMusic, Jonathan Widran wrote:The real joys of this disc are his scorching guitar energy, followed by his jumpy boogie-woogie piano.

It's pretty much a funky and humor-laden bluesfest throughout, from his funked-up update of "Gimme Back My Wig" to the shuffling blues of "Tease Me."

He also ventures into spirited New Orleans territory on "Goin' Home Tomorrow" and offers a prayer of forgiveness for his countless lifelong sins by declaring that "Jesus Loves Me.