 "The Healer" peaked at number 62 on the "Billboard" 200 and "I'm in the Mood" won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Performance.Produced by Roy Rogers of the Delta Rhythm Kings, and executive produced by Mike Kappus (who also conceived the idea for the project), the album had such success that it "permitted John Lee Hooker to live out the end of his life in comfort".It was voted number 424 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's "All Time Top 1000 Albums" (2000).