The album also features a number of cover songs, ranging from Fleetwood Mac's "Oh Well" to Pete Seeger's "Living in the Country."

Music critic Hal Horowitz, writing for Allmusic called the album "breezy" and singled out the musicianship over the songwriting and singing.

"The musicians work wonderfully together, with Gordon's meaty yet malleable bass grounding and darting around Kottke's distinctive and agile fingerpicked lines.

"[6] Writing for Minor 7th, Patrick Ragains felt the album was "... a few steps short" and praised Kottke's solo, "From Spink to Correctionville," as "a welcome respite from the rest of the program's bass and midrange clutter."

This is also true of several covers... Gordon handles electric guitar on several tracks, but his playing is trite and fails to generate any fire in the treble register.