One reviewer of the CD writes as follows: “The Great River Road music (which to no minor degree includes Upton’s pure-as-gold, melancholy heart cry) transports as much as it transcends. Peaceful and tranquil, moving and romantic and rustic and real, the title track opens the proceedings with understated strength and conviction, effortlessly capturing Upton’s complex vision even as it flies you gently across miles of virgin prairie: I was born where the rivers run / Native blood runs through my veins / I was born where the eagles come / Waiting till the winter fades.....”