 Simply, elegantly excellent.”

Allmusic said about "Where Angels Fear to Tread," “DeVille and his band were burning through the pages of rock and R&B history (there are a couple of doo wop- and New Orleans-flavored cuts as well) with raw swagger and astonishing musicianship.Why they didn't catch on and George Thorogood did is a mystery that will be up to '80s historians to figure out.”

Boris Kinberg, a percussionist in The Mink DeVille Band, considered "Lilly's Daddy's Cadillac" one of the best songs Willy DeVille ever wrote.