[2] White was resuming his recording career, which had been interrupted by his incarceration for two years at the infamous Parchman Farm prison in Mississippi.

[2] Despite the somber lyrics, "the music throbs with a restless energy"[3] with White's "bottleneck guitar crying in urgent counterpoint to his imagery".

[2] Music historian Ted Gioia notes that these recordings of White "come as close to art song as traditional blues has ever dared to go, but without losing any of the essential qualities of the Delta heritage".

Spacemen 3 adapted the lyrics for their song "Amen", alternatively titled "Hey Man" on the album Sound of Confusion.

In 2002, Robert Plant recorded a version titled "Funny In My Mind (I Believe I'm Fixin' To Die)" for the Dreamland album.