Rolling Stone (2/3/00, p.62) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...'90s Nashville's smartest and sanest classicist...lavishes attention to soulful old records....[INFLUENCE] is a group of 12 vintage tunes that comprise a collection of what he calls 'just songs that I like'..."
Entertainment Weekly (10/29/99, p.115) - "...In assembling these fine covers...[Jackson] updates classics with poignant readings and eloquent instrumental solos, finding the poetry in country's forgotten gems." - Rating: B+
No Depression (1-2/00, pp.82-3) - "...the most rebellious mainstream country album of the year....[it] flies in the face of current fashion by daring to feature music that is explicitly, unabashedly, sometimes even unreconstructedly country....the best album of Jackson's career..."
Mojo (Publisher) (12/99, p.124) - "...complete satisfaction. He is still the connoisseur's hat act....a master of mellow honky tonk vocalizing..."
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