[citation needed] In the United States it became the band's first album to chart, reaching number 143.

In 1976 an edited version of a second track from the album, "Hard Times of Old England", was issued as a single, but did not chart.

The album cover and back was designed by John O'Connor, a friend of the band's guitarist Tim Hart, using an anamorphic projection that distorted the facial features of the band members but which looks correct when viewed from the side through special pinholes in the lyric sheet.

The record label Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs reissued this LP in 1980 in a half-speed-mastered, Japan-pressed, limited-edition audiophile vinyl edition, as catalog number MFSL 1-027.

In 1996, one of the group's lead vocalists, Maddy Prior, contributed guest vocals to a Status Quo recording of the song "All Around My Hat", and when that band toured England that year with Steeleye Span as support, she joined them on stage to sing it as an encore.