It was self-produced and released in March 1977 by independent label Lucy Records and subsequently distributed by Ladyslipper Music.

Recorded on a two-track tape machine at a Vancouver television studio, the album was mixed with minimal processing except for some equalization and peak limiting.

Maillard observed that the early influence of country-western music evolved into a contemporary urban folk style, moving from flat-picking to fingerpicked songs, exemplified by the tracks "Under the Weather" and "Dead Men and Lovers."

[7] "The songs, though more from the heart than the intellect, still rustle with the strong imagery of a deep and elusive narrator," remarked Vaughn Palmer a year later.

"With her deep clear voice & unique singing-talking style, Ferron creates a sound that moves into your body & holds you.

"The fifteen songs are a well-chosen sample of her material, her earliest to her most recent; both her vocal and guitar work sound assured and authoritative, and she projects her poetry with warmth and immediacy as though singing to friends...Ferron may just turn out to be one of the best and most important songwriters in North America.