5 Stars-Indispensable-"...The Modern Era's Best Country Album....An All-Time Great Album...", "...the desperate sadness of the ballads stands outside time and place....GRIEVOUS ANGEL is simply the finest record of its kind...blazingly, unimpeachably brilliant....", Ranked #20 in Nme's List of 'the Greatest Albums of the '70s.', Ranked #21 in The NME "Top 30 Heartbreak Albums" - "...His traumatized narratives of jilted grooms, forlorn lovers and drifters grasping for spiritual consolation represented the apotheosis of country misery.", Ranked #53 in Nme's List of the 'greatest Albums of All Time.'