Time Out NY attests, Brooklyn's "My Cousin, the Emperor makes happily gnarly music; the band's debut album, A Long Way from Home, trades in rolling country rock & roll." My Old Kentucky Blog calls it, "Filled to the brim with both alone-in-the-pouring-rain ballads and throw-me-another-whiskey barroom romps" and Under the Radar Magazine declares, "My Cousin, The Emperor stands up for all that's still right with the genre of country."