"Superb." - Washington Post
"The best of this year's haul." - The Seattle Rocket
"This band is going to make a mark." - Hackensack Record
"When you've got a guy who may well be the best songwriter of his generation at the helm, it's hard to go wrong." - No Depression
"Never before has this weary-voiced, warm-hearted gentleman sounded so in touch with the force that keeps driving him along that old road of musical roots, rural wandering, American faith and sorrow." - Village Voice
"The reason we keep going to see music." - Smug Magazine
**** - Daily Texan
**** - Pulse
"A record for the ages." - St. Paul Pioneer Press
"A lovely, lonely ode to drift." - Newsweek
"One of the finest songwriters of our time ... Farrar's ability could and rightfully should make him an influence for the next generation, just as Neil Young and Gram Parsons did before him." - Cleveland Scene
"The best LP I've heard this year." - St. Louis Riverfront Times
"Son Volt has made an album of river music‹pretty, slow and dreamy, sometimes forceful and raucous, but always moving." - Album Network