Living Blues (11-12/00, p.51) - "...Inspirational....a 'songbook' album, featuring an accomplished vocal stylist interpreting the works of one of our most eloquent and influential lyricists..."
Mojo (Publisher) (11/00, p.104) - "...13 fine Dan Penn songs...and Irma Thomas sings them with grace and elegance..."
Personnel: Irma Thomas (vocals); Michael Toles (acoustic & electric guitars); Jim Spake (soprano & tenor saxophones); Scott Thompson (trumpet); Howard Lamb (trombone); Bobby Emmons (Fender Rhodes piano, keyboards, tambourine); Carson Whitsett (Fender Rhodes piano); Spooner Oldham (Wurlitzer piano, background vocals); Swain Schaefer (Fender Rhodes piano); Marvell Thomas (Hammond B-3 organ); James Kinard (bass); James Robertson, Steve Potts (drums); Scott Billington (percussion); Elaine Foster, Lisa Foster, Erica Falls, Dan Penn (background vocals).
Recorded at Sounds Unreel, in Memphis, Tennessee and Ultrasonic Studios, New Orleans, Louisiana in September 1999. Includes liner notes by Robert Gordon.