"The recordings of this two-disc set mash up a remarkable range of American roots music - from fife and drum to country blues, country and western to bebop, string band til R&B, traditional jazz to bluegrass, Chicago blues to hip-hop - that have been "refashioned ... to highlight the definition" of the songster "in a modern context." For these sessions, Flemons plays an array of instruments, including banjo, guitar, bass drum, quills, harmonica, cane fife, and bones ... The Omnibus is comprised of three parts, including two previously released recordings ... A kind of post-modern roots extravaganza"