Help Yourself (Eddy Clearwater album)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[11]
The Buffalo News	[5]
The Grove Press Guide to the Blues on CD	[9]
The Indianapolis Star	[12]
MusicHound Blues: The Essential Album Guide	[4]
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings	[13]
The Press of Atlantic City	[10]
The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide	[8]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of the Blues	[14]

The Chicago Tribune said that Clearwater "serves up slow blues, shuffles and rockers, sad songs, think pieces and good jokes."^[15] The Indianapolis Star opined that "Clearwater still sounds like a young Chuck Berry, notably on the rock and soul 'Little Bit of Blues'".^[12] Stereo Review stated that "Clearwater has a compelling voice and properly rooted guitar style... He handles the pop-oriented material skillfully, including slivers of country-and-western, but he is at his best when he digs deep down into the blues".^[6] The Washington Post concluded that "most [songs] feature toss-away lyrics ... and seem lightweight or derivative compared with the album's occasional strong points".^[16] In 1996, the Toronto Star praised Clearwater's "unique, durable recipe of belting West Side blues and rockabilly rollers".^[17]