Derek and the Dominos
In an April 2011 article on Derek and the Dominos, for "The A.V. Club", Noel Murray described Whitlock as "a superior singer-songwriter" and labeled his debut album "an under-heralded classic".&lt;ref name="Murray/AVClub"&gt;Noel Murray, "Derek and the Dominos: When God walked among us", "The A.V. Club", April 6, 2011 (retrieved October 30, 2014).&lt;/ref&gt; Steve Kurutz of AllMusic views it as "a solid effort filled with southern gospel influences … and rootsy rockers", adding: "On the mournful ballad 'Dreams of a Hobo', Whitlock shows that all his good material was not spent on the Derek &amp; the Dominoes project."