AllMusic reviewer Stewart Mason called it "a well-lubricated studio jam session".[4]The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings awarded the album 3 stars, noting: "The atmosphere is charged with the electricity of several wiley old blues musicians topping each other's tricks. their occasionally, and perhaps not always entirely playfully, barbed sides add a whiff of brimstone. Altogether the performance tells us things about the four men that their other records don't generally convey, and anyone with a special fondness for any of the artists really aught to hear it".[5]
Track listing
All compositions by Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins except where noted
"Ain't Nothin' Like Whiskey" – 7:50
"Penitentiary Blues" (Traditional) – 5:08
"If You Steal My Chickens, You Can't Make Em Lay" (Big Joe Williams) – 5:37
"First Meeting" (Hopkins, Brownie McGhee) – 7:10
"How Long Have It Been Since You Been Home?" – 4:10
