 Locke covers Freda Payne's 1970 single "Band of Gold" as a bonus track; she performed the song as a contestant on "American Idol", along with Frenchie Davis.Bernstein wrote that Locke provides "a reverent cover of a chestnut".Gordon Ely of "Billboard" praised it as "powerfully performed and perfectly presented", and referred to Locke as "a major new artist in the making".