Shepherd named his debut album after this neighborhood as an homage to the blues tradition of his hometown.

Five years later, in 1986, musician Stevie Ray Vaughan included a version of the song on his own album, Live Alive.

It is likely the title used was an honest mistake, since the song begins with the lyrics, "I'm leaving you, woman, before I commit a crime."

While highlighting "Born with a Broken Heart" and "I'm Leaving You (Commit a Crime)", he wrote in summary that Shepherd "plays better blues readymades than he writes [and] writes better blues readymades than his front man sings".

[5] AllMusic's Thom Owens later said that "Shepherd burns through a set of rather generic blues-rock ravers that are made special by his exceptional technique.