Anytime" among the highlights of Harrison's solo career on Apple Records. DeRiso describes the track as "[e]very bit as moving as Abbey Road triumphs like 'Something'" and "a gutsy opening song for such an enormous undertaking". In The Rough Guide to the Beatles, Chris Ingham opines: "Yet for all the impact of the sonic scale [of All Things Must Pass], it's perhaps the quieter moments that endure. The beautiful I'd Have You Anytime is Harrison at his most harmonically luxurious … the song has George showing [Dylan] his posh major sevenths and Bob responding with the forthright middle eight." Among Beatles and Harrison biographers, Rodriguez considers the song to be an "exquisite" opening track, while Chip Madinger and Mark Easter rate it "A low-key opener for such a behemoth of an album, but an effective one". Bruce Spizer describes it as "a beautiful ballad" that "[hints] at greater things to come". Elliot Huntley similarly views "I'd Have You Anytime" as the "perfect choice" for the first song, and praises the "drifting quality" of Harrison's vocals on this "haunting, dream-like lullaby", as well as Clapton's "tastefully beautiful" lead guitar. Simon Leng considers the track to be "Beautifully sung" and "evidence that 'Something' was no fluke". Alternative version The Harrison–Dylan demo of "I'd Have You Anytime" has never received an official release, although from the late 1970s, it began circulating among collectors on bootleg compilations, which stated an incorrect recording date of 1 May 1970. According to Dylan chronicler Olof Björner and Eight Arms to Hold You authors Chip Madinger and Mark Easter, Harrison and Dylan may have recorded the demos for this song and "Nowhere to Go" in Bearsville, during the original composing session in 1968. Both songs appear on bootlegs such as The Dylan Harrison Sessions and The Beatles – 20 x 4. In November 2011, in its deluxe edition format, the British DVD release of Martin Scorsese's documentary George Harrison: Living in the Material World contained a CD that included an alternate take of "I'd Have You Anytime". Harrison archive producer Giles Martin describes it as "very organic ... a very fragile version of the song". The CD was released internationally in May 2012 as Early Takes: Volume 1. Cover versions Since his death in November 2001, "I'd Have You Anytime" has appeared on Harrison tribute albums such as He Was Fab (2003), on which Champale contribute a "low-key,