"After all the gruelling, purging, razor-edged confessions of addiction and abuse that made her name, the opening brace here finds Gauthier luxuriating in love over warm, woody, Band-inspired music, the Hammond rising up like smoke, and happiness making her voice soar and spread like the sun ... Gauthier's singing (...) blooms, holding on to syllables as if they're the late beloved in the elegy "How Could You Be Gone", or sensually streching words that miss her lover's touch. Dylan in 1970 comes to mind, comforted and satisfied"

"Sometimes music won't cause any measurable tremors in the musical landscape. But if the words & music linger long enough in someone's heart to allow them to smile briefly, privately, even with a tear in their misty eyes - from your work - your job is done. Cindy Bullens' CD did it for me & it continues to. Mary Gauthier does this. One of the year's best, without a doubt"