Stills experimented with adding Crosby & Nash-like harmonies by using Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman (otherwise known as Flo & Eddie).

In the other studio were the Bee Gees working on their Children of the World album, to which Stills added percussion to the hit song "You Should Be Dancing."

[5] The liner notes describe the songs as follows:[6] Side 1 "Buyin' Time" - "Written midst the 1975's Presidential placations over our economic woes.

French vocal - no expense spared and with Great Mental Torment (not the name of a group-rather a state of mind) by Stephen.

Written in London, October 1974, after the CSNY tour, by Donnie and Stephen in their hotel room.

The key change was suggested later in Miami by George Terry, Eric's guitar player.

"Closer to You" - "Donnie's outstanding twelve-string throughout the track sets up a simply great song."

Flo and Eddie worked on him the better part of an evening 'till he forgot he wasn't supposed to be having a good time singing.

In a contemporary review Billboard said, "Typical laid-back Stills with usual better than average songs and instrumental work from Donnie Dacus, George Perry, Joe Vitale, Tubby Ziegler and several others.

The only criticism might be that the artist doesn't seem to get above a fixed energy level until near the end of side two, when he swings into a Latin-flavored cut and several easy rockers.

Rolling Stone did not bother to review the album; however Steve Clarke for the NME in a review praised the production work and said, "There is such a thing as the Stephen Stills sound and like Phil Spector and Brian Wilson's sound it's a big aural landscape."

[5] Record Mirror, in 1976, received the album positively saying it "sounds fresh yet comfortably familiar" and complemented Stills on the production, calling it some of the "cleanest producing in sometime".

A European tour in June 1976 was cancelled at short notice due to Stills reuniting with Neil Young.

Stills was due to play Ninean Stadium, Cardiff, Wales to 40,000 fans on 5 June but pulled out at the last minute.