[2] It features the singles "I'm On My Journey Home",[4] "Friends and Neighbors",[5] and "Golden Willow Tree",[6] which were released on October 24, 2024, December 12, 2024, and January 21, 2025, respectively.

"[8] The Skinny added that "Salt River blurs the boundary between tradition and modernity," giving it four stars out of five.

[3] Pitchfork gave the album a rating of 7.3 out of 10 and wrote that "overall, this is another fine example of Amidon’s capacious, bracingly simple definition of the genre yoked to him.

"[1] London-based magazine MusicOMH described Salt River as "another successful example of Amidon drawing on his folk upbringing and creating something very much on his own terms," and gave it a rating of 3.5 out of 5.

[9] Will Russell of the Dublin-based magazine, Hot Press, gave a rating of eight out of ten to the album and remarked "vintage effort from US folk merchant.