Included in Mojo's The 67 Lost Albums You Must Own! - "Filled with deliciously compact and enigmatic honky-tonk songs...", 4 stars out of 5 - "...MAGNETIC SOUTH is a stall-setting template, with the lurchingly fine hit 'Joanne', the Hank Williams-y 'Mama Nantucket' and even a good end-of-side-one joke....as good as anything else in country rock."
