"Best New Reissue" - "The new 50th-anniversary reissue restores the album to its ostensible original running order, appends a typically epochal live concert from the following year, and retrieves an intimate set of early demos recorded on a long night in a Calgary hotel. None of this is uninteresting and some of it is indispensable, but it's ultimately a long way around towards building up the reputation of an LP that never really needed defending ... Fifty years on Stage Fright is an oasis, an exhalation, a genial respite from the ongoing crucible of the Band's accumulating days. The final moment when the music came easy, before the weight became unmanageable."