Planner called Wadsworth's "Wellinbrook Well" an "underrated classic", and described Randy Sparks's "Whistle" as a "brilliant bout of wordplay". Planner said that the "most memorable performances" on the album were "That Big Rock Candy Mountain", "Cotton Picker's Song", "Oh! Shenando" and "In the Pines". Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr., also at AllMusic wrote in a review of the compilation album, "Presenting & In Person" that while the album "captures the group's youthful, happy sound in all its glory", the presence of songs like "The Cotton Picker's Song" seemed "ill-chosen". Lankford said that "Anyone vaguely familiar with songs associated with Leadbelly will wonder what a group of vibrant middle-class white kids know about picking cotton or sleeping in the pines all night." All tracks composed by The New Christy Minstrels, except where noted. All tracks arranged by Randy Sparks.