Reception
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Entertainment Weekly | (A) |
In his review of the box set, music critic Richie Unterberger called it "Perhaps the most sumptuous, nay incredible, box set package ever devised for a blues artist." He also cautions that some of the tracks "sometimes suffer from unavoidably poor sound quality due to the extremely rough shape of the only surviving original copies."
Scott Schinder of Entertainment Weekly states Revenant "has topped itself with this lavish seven-CD box honoring the gravelly howl, inventive guitar work, and vivid songwriting of seminal Delta bluesman Patton." and calls Fahey's essay on Patton "illuminating" and "fascinating".
Read more about this topic: Screamin' And Hollerin' The Blues: The Worlds Of Charley Patton
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