Is This What You Want? superstar backing musicians, saying, "they're always talkin' about who's on the album and not the album itself." Writing in "ZigZag" in July 1974, Andy Childs advised the magazine's readers: "it's worth its weight in gold, so if it's absent from your collection, add it to your shopping list of second-hand records." Greenfield and Childs both recognised Harrison's "Sour Milk Sea" as a highlight of the album. Richie Unterberger of AllMusic offers a less favourable opinion of "Is This What You Want?", describing Lomax as "a passable but unarresting singer and songwriter". Unterberger identifies the best moments as the "Beatlesque" songs
What Wondrous Love Is This of his "American Hymnsong Suite" (2003) for concert band. In 1966, the United Methodist "Book of Hymns" became the first standard hymnal to incorporate "What Wondrous Love Is This". "What Wondrous Love Is This" is now a widely known hymn and is included in many major hymnals, including the "Baptist Hymnal", "Book of Praise" (Presbyterian), "Chalice Hymnal" (Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)), "Common Praise" (Anglican), "The Hymnal 1982" (Episcopalian), "Lutheran Book of Worship", "New Century Hymnal" (United Church of Christ), "Presbyterian Hymnal", "Voices United" (United Church of Canada), "The Worshipping Church" (interdenominational), "Worship" (Roman Catholic), and "Singing the Living Tradition"