Mary Halvorson racconta a Jazzwise della profonda importanza di Rock Bottom nella sua esperienza di (relativamente) giovane ascoltatrice prima e di musicista in proprio poi, al punto da spingerla in anni successivi a intraprendere un rapporto diretto con Robert Wyatt, seppure a distanza, sfociato infine nella collaborazione di Artlessly Falling (Firehouse 12 records, 2020).
"When you’re a teenager and you hear things for the first time they have an incredible impact; and I certainly had experiences like that at that age. But it’s much rarer that you get that kind of impact later in life; and this is one of those records for me. I say ‘later in life’ - I probably heard it when I was 27, so I was still a young person; but by that point, I’d heard so much music. It was nice to go into something with no preconceived notions; and it doesn’t happen that often, because usually you know something about whatever it is. It felt like discovering something that I couldn’t believe I’d been missing my whole life! To have that experience when I was a little older was great. I don’t know if I’d heard it when I was younger whether I’d have made sense of it? Perhaps it was the perfect time for me to hear it."