[1] Guard later formed the folk-oriented group Whiskeyhill Singers — which disbanded after one Capitol album and virtually no success — before moving on to other endeavors.

[3] In an interview for Frets magazine in 1984 and included in the liner notes to The Guard Years, Reynolds stated: "Basically, David wanted to take it on to another level.

It might have been an overreaction on Dave's part, but I believe that he honestly wanted to take it to a higher plane..."[3][4] The Trio's long-time bassist, David "Buck" Wheat is pictured with the group on the cover.

Music critic Bruce Eder wrote for Allmusic that the original Trio's final album "shows no sign of the group slackening its standards or rushing through the material."

and while praising all the tracks, singled out "Razors in the Air" as "a delightfully played and sung piece of pure fun that gives Dave Guard, in particular, an opportunity to show off his prodigious banjo skills before leaving the lineup of the group he founded."