Roots of Our Nature

1	Don't Throw Your Changes on Me / Norton Buffalo 3:49
2	All I Want / Norton Buffalo 3:41
3	Under the Rug / Norton Buffalo 3:23
4	Requiem / Norton Buffalo 4:11
5	If I Were a King 5:34
6	Ritmo de las Almas (Rythm of the Souls) / Norton Buffalo 4:51
7	Making New Love Out of Old / Norton Buffalo 3:07
8	Long Hard Road / Norton Buffalo 4:50
9	Trinity / Norton Buffalo 4:09
10	Deny and Down the Distance / Norton Buffalo 5:16
11	Seven Hearts / Norton Buffalo 6:23
12	Highway Bound / Norton Buffalo 4:23
13	Happy Go Lucky / Norton Buffalo 2:49

All Music Guide

In an intimate acoustic setting, Norton Buffalo and Roy Rogers present a set of original tunes whose flavor suggests roots much further back in time. Aside from a few tasteful string parts, Roots is all about crisp finger-picked and slide guitar, Buffalo's earthy and expressive harmonica, and each artist's agreeably unpolished vocals. Their lyrics embrace traditional imagery, from saloon balladry to ramblin' songs. On "Trinity" the words sustain an especially rustic eloquence through multiple verses dedicated to visions of salvation. If retro affectation bothers you, it's best to imagine this session transpiring on some snowy night, within the glow of an iron stove at some crossroads general store. When heard on these terms, Roots can cast a spell to remember. Robert Doerschuk

Billboard

Both artists are very much in sympathy with blues music, though the 13 original tracks...aren't limited by any obvious stylistic parameters.