[1] Bob Dylan contributes piano on the title song under the pseudonym of Robert Milkwood Thomas.

Ian Dove of the New York Times wrote, "Mr. Goodman has been allowed to bring all his influences into the album, and as a result we get a fully rounded portrait of the artist.

It is a deceptively casual album—'laid back' in the argot—recorded in Nashville and New York, but which has much strength and realism in its simplicity... Mr. Goodman's accompaniment is also kept simple and direct.

"[5] John Baudie in Q Magazine called the album "more assured [and] runs through the whole gamut of Goodman's range".

[3] In reviewing the 1999 reissue, Allmusic critic Sharon Witmer wrote "This recording presents a good overview of the prodigious talent and gifts that Steve Goodman gave the music world.