Love Story was supported by five singles: "Box Chevy V", "Till It's Gone", "Whiskey in a Bottle", "American You" and "Best Friend" featuring Eminem.

He said, "With Radioactive, I gave up a lot of creative space, and like I predicted would happen, there were some records that didn't translate to my audience.

[6] On March 14, 2013, Yelawolf released his sixth mixtape Trunk Muzik Returns, containing ten tracks with guest appearances from Raekwon, Paul Wall, Killer Mike and ASAP Rocky.

[7] On October 31, 2013, Yelawolf released another mixtape, titled Black Fall, and this time it was produced entirely by Three 6 Mafia's DJ Paul.

[11][12][13] The song has a mellow groove, and the WLPWR made production features twinkling keys and guitar licks.

[16][17] On September 16, 2014, the album's second single, "Till It's Gone", premiered on episode two of the seventh season of Sons of Anarchy, on the following day, it was released on the web.

[35] Renato Pagnani of Rolling Stone calling the album a "stronger embrace of his southern roots", while also adding that "Yelawolf's populist ambitions haven't gone away.

"[32] Chris Mench of Complex saying "The album layers the trailer park swagger of his early work over rootsy country music instrumentals, and it's largely successful".

[28] Marcus Dowling of HipHopDX said: "On Love Story, the effort, creativity and ambition is more than there, and his tremendous talents as an emcee and clear artistic voice are very much present."

He would go on to say the album is "disjointed but not jagged...the closer Yelawolf stays to his more organic-to-his-roots style of Southern rap, he excels.

[34] In a mixed review, Drew Millard of Spin stated: "Nobody else has tried to mash murder ballads, hardcore rap, bluegrass, backwoods country, and feather-light guitar-pop into one album, pretty much ever ...

Millard additionally criticized Yelawolf's lyrics, including his usage of "the word 'faggot' multiple times on the record, which, come on, guy.

[33] In a mostly negative review, Jay Balfour of Pitchfork wrote: "Love Story is far too long to accomplish so little ... Yelawolf sounds like he's just going through the motions instead of actually covering ground".