We love romanticism, organs and slide guitars… and yet…

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Anthony Easton: I wonder if, in a moment of severe, and personal self reflection, Pat Green thought that the subject of the song, might not want to be caught — that all of this effort to get to her is not a positive thing?  Also, what does “bleeding too red” mean?
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Iain Mew: If the music didn’t match up to the claims of epic travails they might sound a bit hollow, but it’s on a scale to make them work, even outdoing Pat’s weathered voice. The guitar kicks up those desert sands in thick clouds, the organ does determined questing and I only wish that the song didn’t fade out during the solo at the end.
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Edward Okulicz: A big wash of organ over some driving chords? Good start for a song of massive trials that Green outlines. Even better that it’s a love song.
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Katherine St Asaph: Beneath the bluster and twang is a yearning romanticism that’s hard to ignore. It’s as if you found a couple struggling musicians who’d long used whiskey to cloud over their moon eyes, given them fresh instruments and a U.S. map, then instructed them to make anthemic country out of Savage Garden. That’s no diss; it just means “All Just To Get To You” is an excellent test of whether you’ve still got a heart. Apparently I do. 
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Brad Shoup: At the risk of threatening a bro for the second time in the last week or so, I have to admit that Mr. Green was to my college years what Dave Matthews Band was to those of many misguidedly right-thinking folks. It was probably around the one millionth spin of “Wave on Wave” that I started to get the appeal. But where “Wave on Wave” reveled in the redemptive love of a pursuant woman, “All Just to Get to You” finds the singer on his own — albeit fruitless — search. There’s enough imagery to sweeten the easygoing chug of a typical Green single, and just enough desperation in the chase to poison the anthem he thought he was crafting.
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Alfred Soto: The track’s workaday quality is exactly the virtue that Green’s shooting for, but the slide parts and solo hint at a transcendence beyond their and Green’s ability to project.
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