Fellow musician and former member of The Dillards, Mitch Jayne expands Michael's point: "'One Toke Over The Line' became a hit single record, but that was a small measure of the impact of Brewer and Shipley had on people who listened to the sound they had created.  Album buyers understood that these men were designers, not pop music freaks, and as prolific as they were, they didn't write songs to any formula.  Each album, from Down In L.A. to Heartland, was a meticulously woven tapestry of fabric they had invented one song at a time."