The list of Eaglesmith songs covered by other artists grows steadily: The Cowboy Junkies, Chris Knight, Dar Williams, Kasey Chambers, and James King. Film director Martin Scorsese has used his songs, as have various others including James Caan in his movie "Viva Los Nowhere". Eaglesmith has won The Juno Award and regularly scores on critic's top ten lists on both sides of the border.

Since first hitting the road in 1996, Fred Eaglesmith and his amazingly tight band have received critical acclaim from almost every major and minor newspaper in Canada and the US, and have one of the most devoted fan bases since The Grateful Dead.

The show itself is a smoky mixture of hard-edged honky-tonk, a balance between rock and early sixties country music. It`s passionate, funny and sentimental all at once, as if Hank Williams joined The Rolling Stones. As one reviewer said, "It takes a jaded soul to leave a Fred Eaglesmith show unaffected." Or as Fred`s fans say, "You get religion." Nobody is sure how it works, it just does.