[6] In 2006, Padgett gave birth to her first child, after which she disbanded the Naysayer and began recording children's music as The Good Ms.
[7] Franklin Bruno wrote in CMJ that Pure Beauty "filters [Padgett's] sensibility through country music's formal and narrative conventions even more completely than Heaven, Hell, or Houston, with mixed results.
wrote that "How well Kitten Time works depends entirely upon how far you're willing to wait; but for the patient, it's unlikely that a smarter songwriter exists in independent music right now.
"[9] Jeremy Schneyer of PopMatters wrote that Heaven, Hell or Houston was "a fairly simple and unassuming collection of songs on the surface," but that despite this, "in the end, [it] has a great deal more to offer than immediate gratification.
In the same review, she wrote that "the new guests don't ruin its understated charm; like good little kittycats, they sidle up at just the right moment, confer their clear-eyed solace, and then slip away in a silken swish.