The album was released two years after Rodriguez returned to her home town in Austin, after she had lived in Brooklyn, New York, and "had a second to reflect on [her] life".

When asked if the album had a common lyrical theme, she answered that "A lot of these songs are about feeling intense emotion and letting it be out in the open.

Emotional lyrics rooted in letting go of attachments and propping others up are wonderfully communicated with low boil intensity.

Old cohort Chip Taylor writes or co-composes a handful of songs including the opening 'Devil in Mind' that combines Rodriguez's Austin rustic roots with the urban influences she has acquired through a decade of living in Brooklyn...

"[6] Cara Tillman of the Austin Chronicle noted that the album Give Me All You Got "plays out as a hymn to the free-spirited sinner who embraces the compulsion for adventure, as well as the need to put down roots.