[4] Encouraged by a friend, he then moved to Nashville, Tennessee to pursue a country music career, something which he was inspired to do by reading the names of the songwriters on album liner notes.
[5] Mike Joyce of The Washington Post reviewed the album favorably, calling him "a first-rate storyteller who puts most of the competition in country music to shame.
The album's title track served as lead single, spending eleven weeks on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts and peaking at number 49.
[1] Coty wrote six of the album's eleven tracks, also covering Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' "You Got Lucky" and Bruce Springsteen's "Sad Eyes".
[4] Ray Waddell of Billboard reviewed Legacy favorably, stating that Coty was in "creative, confident mode" and calling him an "edgy yet melodic tunesmith".
"[4] The same publication's Ray Waddell compared Coty's storytelling songs favorably to those of Steve Earle,[7] a comparison also made by Mike Joyce of The Washington Post.