 The album has 100,000 copies in the U.S. as of May 2015.The album was ranked number 33 on "Rolling Stone"s list of the Top 50 Albums of 2007.Mark Demming of Allmusic wrote "...at its best Last of the Breed really sounds the way these things did in the old days, and Nelson, Haggard, and Price achieve something more than nostalgia—they offer a stirring reminder of the strength of this music when country music spoke to something deeper than just a marketing demographic."