 In his consumer guide for "The Village Voice", Robert Christgau attributed the record's intense quality to "the natural enthusiasm of an inspired collaboration", and remarked on its standing in Chicago blues, "except maybe for B.B.King's "Live at the Regal" and Otis Spann's "Walking the Blues" (oh, there must be others, but let me go on) I can't recall a better blues "album" than this.