It was released in September 1997 as the second single from his first album, Michael Peterson, becoming his only number one hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts that year.

[2] Deborah Evans Price, of Billboard magazine reviewed the song favorably, calling it a "well-written ballad, ripe with sweet emotion."

She goes on to say that Peterson's vocal "perfectly captures the warmth and feeling in the lyric.

"[3] The music video, directed by Steven Goldmann, was filmed in Point Reyes and west Marin County, California.

Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of September 13, 1997.