The album features background vocals by members of the Persuasions, and by Whitney Houston and her mother Cissy Houston, with soul singer/songwriter Eltesa Weathersby, on the tracks "Fire on the Bayou" and "Sitting in Limbo".
Robert Christgau called the album "an enjoyable way for neophytes to get into the most universal rock and roll style."[4]The Globe and Mail wrote that "the New Orleans brand of pop, more than any other, displays Latin and Caribbean influences that it draws from the islands and continent to the south and adds to the sounds of the blues heartland to the immediate north."[6]Robert Palmer, in The New York Times, listed the album as the 4th best of 1981, writing: "The first family of New Orleans rock 'n' soul, the brilliant horn and string arrangements of Wardell Quezergue and the production expertise of Joel Dorn conspired to make Fiyo on the Bayou an instant classic."[7]
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