The Music Dish Network described The Spinning of the World as "the kind of folk everyone can"t help but be touched by." Bob McKenzie of Sound Bytes said, "More than a storyteller, Talmadge is a poet ... he joins such artists as Lou Reed, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson and Lyle Lovett." He is supported on this recording by Stephen Bruton, Iain Matthews, Eliza Gilkyson, Paul Pearcy and Glenn Fukunaga. Produced by Bradley Kopp.