Prayer for Peace (North Mississippi Allstars album)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	80/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
American Songwriter	[3]
GIGsoup	73%[4]
Tom Hull	B+()[5]
Vice	[6]

Prayer for Peace was met with universal acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 80, based on four reviews.[1]

AllMusic's Thom Jurek praised the album, citing the music as eternal, and said that the band's "obvious reverence for it is shown in how easily they just let it come through." Jurek elaborated that "no matter where it was recorded or who plays on it", the album felt the same− "Open, willing, and wooly".[2] Hal Horowitz of American Songwriter felt that though there weren't any revelations on the album, yet "the energy, excitement and intensity poured into every performance" made it standout "in an impressive Dickinson brothers catalog that doesn't have any weak entries".[3] Uncut reviewer wrote: "Luther and Cody Dickinson strip it back on Prayer For Prayer, recording in a half-dozen American cities and viscerally capturing the widespread unease".[1] Magnet reviewer found out the album's "rootsy sound remains more or less unchanged and identified".[1] Writing for Vice, veteran music critic Robert Christgau wrote: "Never much shakes with songs per se, they put their minds into an entreaty their South needs, their hearts into their South's African-American repertoire, and their guitars into Will Shade's greatest hit".[6]

• North Mississippi Allstars – Prayer For Peace at Discogs (list of releases)