It features two original songs, a live version of "Late Blues" (from Heart Like a River), and four covers.

Guest musicians include The Band's Levon Helm, Peter Schickele, Michael Hurley, and Tara Jane O'Neil.

[1] Reviewers highlighted the new song "Still Life" and the two on which Levon Helm participated, Dolly Parton's "The Pain of Loving You"[6] and the live version of Ida's own "Late Blues" from one of Helm's Midnight Ramble concerts.

"My Fair, My Dark" was included on a list of "150 of the saddest songs in the world" published in the Los Angeles Times' music blog.

The vinyl release contains an additional cover, of Warren Defever's "Darkness Night".