The album features Billy Sherrill's debut as Coe's producer, with Thom Jurek noting in his AllMusic review of the album: At this time, producer Billy Sherrill had really begun to make his presence felt on David Allan Coe's records.

Ron Bledsoe is still here with his patented honky tonk production style, but the Sherrill ambience creeps in here and gives everything a certain commercial-sounding fullness rather than the space of his earlier records…The album opens with a re-recording of "Would You Lay With Me (In a Field of Stone)," a track Sherrill convinced Coe to redo.

“Mississippi River Queen” is a travelogue of outlaw machismo cut from the same cloth as the Waylon Jennings “I'm a Ramblin’ Man."

The catchy “You Can Count on Me” is a song of utter devotion, while the optimistic “Tomorrow Is Another Day” returns to the Jimmy Buffett sound Coe had mined on his previous song “Divers Do It Deeper.” Side two, the Su-I-Side collection, begins with what AllMusic calls “a masterpiece, with its syncopated vocal lead lines, country-waltz tempo, and huge backing chorus.” From there, the story descends into a cheating, drunken abyss.

The album closes with the southern rock boogie of “Suicide,” its riotous groove at odds with the foreboding lyrics.