Entertainment Weekly (1/26/01, p.103) - "...[Frisell] reaches new atmospheric heights....brilliant guitar work..." - Rating: B
The Wire (5/01, p.61) - "...A compendious evocation and synthesis of a range of genres that never sounds merely eclectic....on a far superior level to most contemporary jazz albums....one of Frisell's most ambitious productions to date..."
CMJ (2/19/01, p.15) - "...The soundtrack to a sleepwalk, a blurred ghost image of American music..."
Down Beat (5/01, pp.61-2) - 4.5 stars out of 5 - "...Call it sophisticated hick music....It's the good, bad and the ugly, as his essentially cinematic approach to storytelling contains both fragments and extended pieces....suggesting the Wild West with a twist one moment, a gospel, down-by-the-river meeting the next..."
JazzTimes (5/01, p.122) - "...Another winsome album....reiterating his bucolic synthesis of American roots music....an American original..."