It was released on September 23, 2003 on Reprise Records and peaked at number 59 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart.

“Holding Things Together,” for example, is from the Merle Haggard tribute album Tulare Dust, while “Truckin’,” appears on the Grateful Dead project Deadicated.

Western swing legend Bob Wills is also faithfully represented with “New San Antonio Rose, and Bill Monroe’s “Rocky Road Blues” was a number Yoakam and The Babylonian Cowboys rocked up as part their live set in the early days, as can be heard on the 2006 Rhino deluxe edition of Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc., but this version remains faithful to Monroe’s musical template.

[3] “Rapid City, South Dakota” and "Louisville," the lone new cut, are honky-tonk songs with more acoustic instruments than electric -- particularly the ringing dobro and shimmering mandolins on the latter.

The album closes with Junior Parker’s “Mystery Train,” but Yoakam and producer Pete Anderson rev it up rockabilly style as they did on earlier hits like “Little Sister” and “Please, Please Baby.” AllMusic: “For those fans of Yoakam's who buy his studio records and get frustrated at the sheer number of compilation and soundtrack cuts he has, this might do the trick to satisfy in lieu of a new album.”[4]