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Writing for Allmusic, critic William Ruhlman wrote the album was " Al Kooper's finest work, an album on which he moves the folk-blues-rock amalgamation of the Blues Project into even wider pastures, taking in classical and jazz elements ( including strings and horns ), all without losing the pop essence that makes the hybrid work.

This is one of the great albums of the eclectic post-Sgt.

Pepper era of the late ' 60s, a time when you could borrow styles from Greenwich Village contemporary folk to San Francisco acid rock and mix them into what seemed to have the potential to become a new American musical form ...

This is the sound of a group of virtuosos enjoying itself in the newly open possibilities of pop music.

Maybe it couldn't have lasted ; anyway, it didn't.