"Smokey Mountain Lullaby" was nominated for the 1997 Grammy Award for Country Instrumental Performance.

adding "Atkins' tune "Tip Toe Through the Bluegrass" plays the two styles off each other quite revealingly.

His "Dixie McGuire" a disarmingly affectionate mid-tempo tune that won't let you go, inspires a performance that is one of the high points of Atkins'."

Ginell said "The title track, which Atkins adapted from a lyric that dealt with bass players finds the two reciting and singing a mock-horror flick tale -- and "Ode to Mel Bay" good-naturedly mocks beginning string players everywhere.

"[6] Country Standard Time called it "yet another superb collaborative effort.