Big Daddy (Bukka White album)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[7]
The Commercial Appeal	[8]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[9]
MusicHound Blues: The Essential Album Guide	[10]
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings	[6]
The New Rolling Stone Record Guide	[11]

Billboard called Big Daddy "both nostalgic and refreshing."^[12]

AllMusic thought that "White conjures up in the studio the essence of the revival sound: a man, a guitar, and an authentic delivery."^[7] The Commercial Appeal wrote: "Slide master White ... manhandled his guitar, a force of nature that was akin to watching a dam break and the flood of blues run wild. His singing, even at this, his final session, matched every defiant, plucked note."^[8]

The Day deemed the album "genuine and powerful," and named the reissue one of the best albums of 2004.^[13] The New Rolling Stone Record Guide called it "an important source of delta styles," writing that "White did have a powerful bottleneck style."^[11]