[3][4] Bass player Tom V. Ray left the band around the time of the album's release.

[6][7] Frontman Brian Henneman also blamed the "alternative country" label that sometimes stuck to the band for the lack of rock radio airplay.

[16] The St. Louis Post Dispatch wrote that "unless you've got a high tolerance for pseudo-redneck hokum, the stuff's bound to leave you cold.

"[21] The San Diego Union-Tribune noted that, "by making great, straightforward rock 'n' roll, the Bottle Rockets have created some of the best crying-in-your-beer music of the year.

"[23] The Lincoln Journal Star concluded that the band "gets slapped with the country tag because Brian Henneman is the '90s musical poet of the common man, turning songs about the kitchen clock into meditations on time and using details to spin funny insightful songs about real people.