Entertainment Weekly (9/25/92, p.66) - "...Owens wasn't the architect of the Bakersfield sound--honky-tonk served with shrill guitars, pedal steels, scrappy fiddles, and stratospherically high harmony voices--but he helped to define and refine it in the '60s..." - Rating: A-
Dirty Linen (Apr/May 93, p.77) - "...a superb job...Few country artists are as deserving of being boxed as is Owens, and this set is a fitting tribute..."
Musician (1/93, p.88) - "...Even two or three decades down the road these songs sound as fresh and as clean as a morning in Bakersfield..."
Village Voice (3/2/93, p.5) - Ranked #9 in the Village Voice's list of the 10 Best Reissues Of 1992.
New York Times (Publisher) (9/23/92, p.C14) - "...[the songs] reflect the cross-cultural melding that went on during the first half of the century...the sound quality is excellent..."
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