Stanley Kauffmann

“Three performances and a face confirm this film. Sissy Spacek--yes, I'm flabbergasted--is simple and faithful as Lynn. Spacek's face is no more of an actor's instrument than it ever was, but given a human being to play instead of weirdo, given a director concerned with acting, she makes that woman exist. She sings the songs herself, nicely, and she has mastered the Appalacian accent.”

[maybe get "poor people sing" part of review]

Stanley Kauffmann
The New Republic, March 29 ?, 1980