"Now 77 years old, Stampfel has been making music since the 1960s, a decade on which he left his stamp a song placed on the soundtrack of the hippie touchstone movie Easy Rider, collaboration with the poets who would form the rock band The Fugs, his own recordings with the group he cofounded, The Holy Modal Rounders. And Stampfel's '60s roots continue to show." NPR "At his best, Stampfel does a kind of slackwire act, striking his own crazy folkie balance between soul and satire and his own crazy rock and roll balance between hellbent enthusiasm and musicianly effect." Robert Christigau "crown prince of the oldtimey anarchopsychofolkadelic American songster tradition" No Depression