Reviews
"...In assembling these fine covers...Jackson updates classics with poignant readings and eloquent instrumental solos, finding the poetry in country's forgotten gems." - Rating: B+, "...complete satisfaction. He is still the connoisseur's hat act....a master of mellow honky tonk vocalizing...", "...the most rebellious mainstream country album of the year....it flies in the face of current fashion by daring to feature music that is explicitly, unabashedly, sometimes even unreconstructedly country....the best album of Jackson's career...", 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...'90s Nashville's smartest and sanest classicist...lavishes attention to soulful old records....INFLUENCE is a group of 12 vintage tunes that comprise a collection of what he calls 'just songs that I like'..."
