Tusi se faʻaauau mo lenei parakalafa - I le tusi a Todd R. Decker i le 2014 "Who Should Sing Ol 'Man River?: The Lives of an American Song", na tusia ai e Decker o le ufiufi o le album o le "Brubeck à la mode" o loʻo faʻaalia ai le "...ata faʻataʻitaʻi o loʻo fefaʻasoaaʻi aisa kulimi i se ata-atoatoa aisa kulimi punavai". Na tusia e Decker le auala e faʻapipiʻi ai e le ufiufi le album i totonu o le faʻasologa o le Civil Rights Movement; aemaise lava le Greensboro sit-ins
ma osofaʻiga a tagata i Nashville, lea na faia foʻi i faleʻaiga o meaʻai.