"The story here seems to be that in the four year gap since "Vagrant Stanzas", Simpson has completely relaxed. In what, no doubt deceptively, sounds like an effortless collection he's allowed himself to range across the whole body of music he's loved down those four to five decades. Old warhorses such as Jackson C, Frank's "Blues Run The Game" and Alex Atterson's setting of Charles Causley's "A Ballad For Katherine Of Aragon" are brought to remarkable new life, mixed with traditional favourites from both sides of the pond ... The album hangs together perfectly (...), lots of layering of Martin's guitars and banjos, all of which ring like bells and sit perfectly together, adding to rather than detracting from the songs themselves - and a completely sympathetic set of accompanists who work just right. But it's the fact that Martin sounds so totally and naturally at home with this whole variety of music that does the trick. He really doesn't sound like anybody else ...MartinSimpson in "probably made his best album ever" shock. Never take an old fox for granted, especially one who owns a banjo"