The album was re-released on September 23, 2003, as a two-CD remastered edition containing a bonus disc of ten tracks recorded live at the Roxy in Los Angeles and a five-track session from BBC Kent in April 1988.

Insiders are calling her the next Janis Joplin, and she's certainly got the whiskey voice, the Texas twang and the hard-luck stories of sexual pain.

"[7] AllMusic called it "one of the most stunning debut albums of the 1980s....Etheridge's true talent, however, is reconciling uncontrollable emotions such as jealousy with a strong and fiercely independent spirit.

Perhaps that's why Etheridge became a role model for a generation of young women who found her to be an uncompromising artist unafraid to expose (and celebrate) her strengths and weaknesses.

Note Remastered edition bonus disc Overdubs recorded at Studio A, Sunset Sound Factory on November 16–18, 1987.