David Yeates and Martin Kelleher provide backing vocals on numerous tracks, the first published recordings of Four to the Bar members' collaboration since the band's 1995 release, Another Son.

Two songs by Ewan MacColl, "Freeborn Man of the Traveling People" and "The Shoals of Herring", are given modern arrangements, featuring piano and synthesizer as well as more typical instruments such as guitar and fiddle.

An original song, "The Morning Sun", has been characterized as a "sunny acoustic alt-country arrangement hid[ing a] down-on-his-luck character.

The review compared Clifford favorably to Glen Hansard and Christy Moore, both calling him a "master of interpretation" and noting that he "does a fine job crafting stories of his own in the four tracks he penned.

The review noted "worthy reinterpretations of some familiar songs"—such as "The Parting Glass," which it called "wonderful"—and likened Clifford to Darden Smith, Dermot Hegarty, Johnny McEvoy, Poco, and Gram Parsons.