The final recording by Gary Burton's classic quartet (how about a reunion someday?) features the vibraphonist/leader, guitarist Larry Coryell, bassist Steve Swallow and drummer Bob Moses mixing together aspects of rock, country and folk music in their advanced improvisations. The material (by Mike Gibbs, Burton, Coryell and Bob Dylan) is quite strong, and there are some hints of the avant-garde (including "One, Two, 1-2-3-4" and Burton's freely improvised solo piece "Dreams"). All of the influential Burton-Coryell recordings (among the earliest fusion records) are currently difficult to find and are deserving reissue as a box set.

Stonewall Jackson could make "Ave Maria" sound like a country song, so Lobo's "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo" was much less of a stretch. Jackson's remake of the then-recent pop hit produced his final Top Ten country hit and probably earned him a few younger fans. The album that followed seems calculated in its mixture of new, pop-oriented songs and country standards as though Jackson's old fans needed to be reassured that he wasn't about to grow long hair and move to L.A. Consequently, Jackson sings his big hit and the Hoyt Axton (by way of Three Dog Night) song "Joy to the World," but spends nearly as much time on classics like Jimmie Rodgers' "Waiting for a Train" and Curly Williams' "Half as Much."