A follow-up to their 2022 project Crooked Tree, the album was co-produced by Tuttle and dobro player Jerry Douglas and includes a collaboration with Dave Matthews.

Songwriting collaborators include Melody Walker, Golden Highway member Shelby Means and Old Crow Medicine Show's Ketch Secor and Mason Via.

On my new album I dug deep as a songwriter and co-producer and surfaced with a record that celebrates the music of my heart, my life, the land where I grew up, and the stories I heard along the way.

Ketch loves writing geographical songs and I have many fond memories of road trips taken through the Central Valley when I was a kid, so we dreamed up this story of a wild ride down the San Joaquin railway.

[6] The Observer's Neil Spencer described it as being "gritty country with pyrotechnics" and "a whirlwind of virtuoso Americana" as it "continues seamlessly" from 2022's Crooked Tree.

[9] Lee Zimmerman of American Songwriter stated that on the album, Tuttle "proves that she's able to maintain the momentum she's built up until now", with its slower songs "assur[ing that] an emotional essence remains intact throughout".