Doug MacLeod’s A Soul To Claim received a four-star review in the July 2022 issue of Downbeat Magazine:
“Doug MacLeod’s A Soul To Claim, like many of his 21 previous albums, makes it clear that he’s an archetype of the top-level blues storyteller: wry, sharp-witted, virile, inclined to poke fun at sentiment.… MacLeod bestows his music with a human intimacy that’s a function of his affable personality and the original material he works with. With natural authority and charisma, he communicates one-on-one with listeners.”
—Frank-John Hadley, Downbeat Magazine