Rolling Stone - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[With] a Seventies country-soul-rock palette part Lee Hazelwood, part Jim Ford, plus spare parts. The title track is a zen-like meditation on craft co-written with master John Prine..."

Magnet - "Self-described as a love letter to Music City, WAITING ON A SONG launches in classic country fashion with its title track, a chugging, sunshiny, mid-tempo twang-pop rave up."

Paste (magazine) - "It is, in a sense, his love letter to Nashville and the artists that he's worshipped from afar. It's a star-studded gathering, and clearly a credit to his own pedigree that he's managed to get them all involved."