The album produced three singles: "Let's Don't Call It a Night," "Crying on a Suitcase," and "The Good Life."

James signed with Sony Music Nashville in August 2010 after appearing on American Idol, and had planned to release his album in 2011.

[4] James co-wrote his single "Let's Don't Call It a Night" with Brice Long and Terry McBride.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic considered that every element in the album "has been vetted and polished, every song targeted at an individual audience", and that "there is the soul of a musician evident beneath the heavy gloss, the sense that James is attempting to reshape his favorite sounds for a wide audience.

"[6] Matt Bjorke of Roughstock thought that it is a "well-written, strongly-produced debut album", while Billy Dukes of Taste of Country considered it "an easy album to listen to start to finish, and the singer’s beachy, gravely timber make him easy to identify.