Slippin' and Slidin' (album)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
The Albuquerque Tribune	A−[9]
AllMusic	[7]
Robert Christgau	B+[10]
Lincoln Journal Star	[11]
MusicHound Blues: The Essential Album Guide	[12]
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings	[13]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of the Blues	[14]

The Evening Post concluded that "every note sounds like J. B. knew it was going to be his last and it had to count."^[15] The Pittsburgh Press said that "neither his enthusiasm nor his intense slide guitar had been diminished, and the music is excellent blues."^[16] The Albuquerque Tribune opined that the album "leaves no doubt he was truly one of the great blues players of the younger generation."^[9] The Lincoln Journal Star labeled it "raw, elemental blues featuring stinging slide guitar".^[11] Robert Christgau wrote that the "slide guitar king makes his tightest and most raucous recorded music since 1968's definitive Hawk Squat!"^[10]

In 1987, the Houston Chronicle called the album "good stuff, alternately haunting and honking; unlike many bluesmen, Hutto did not suffer from a long, slow decline."^[17] The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings noted that Hutto's "slide playing is his sharpest and fullest on disc".^[13]