A Nashville album featuring great musicians? Hardly a rarity, but Lauderdale's Dream Team is something special, combining core ingredients from the sounds of Elvis Presley, Gram Parsons and Bruce Springsteen. The band, particularly guitarist James Burton and drummer Ron Tutt, gives the follow-up to Lauderdale's Grammy-winning Bluegrass album an early-'70s vibe, but that era's country songs rarely took the melodic turns Lauderdale's songs do. Highlights include what might be country's first great intervention song and one sung with Emmylou Harris that would have improved Grievous Angel. Country fans will hear some of these tunes in other forms - artists from George Strait to the Dixie Chicks like to cut Lauderdale's stuff - but they'll never sound quite as original as they do here.

- Mansfield, USA Today