"On Lay It on Down Shepherd and his band traverse many musical borders, crossing from blues into country into rock into gospel and back into blues ... Lay It on Down might not be a "typical" Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band album, but that's a virtue since we get the chance to hear Shepherd and his band stretch out lyrically and musically ... they're guided by Shepherd's crisp and scalding riffs and his inventive songwriting"

"Lay It on Down feels like an intentional retort to Goin' Home, Kenny Wayne Shepherd's 2014 back-to-the-blues platter. Although Shepherd never abandons the blues, either as a color or a sensibility, he expands his palette considerably on this 2017 album, opening himself up to soul, country, and hard rock ... This variety, when melded with such tasteful execution, turns Lay It on Down into not only one of Shepherd's richest records but one of his best"

"With the album closing on Ride Of Your Life in the most energetic of ways, Kenny Wayne Shepherd makes good on his promise to get better and better with each new outing. The production values provided by what Marshall Altman brings to the already most skilled of parties is palpable, but it is the sum of the whole that is most deliriously satisfying. Not so much toying with the tiger's tail of stylistic eclecticism but more trying to tear it away, Lay It On Down is a return to the studio by The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band that should be lauded long and loud"