Johnston credited producer Danny Kortchmar with imparting a more spontaneous, live-sounding feel to this album than its predecessor, This Perfect World.

It's a re-recorded version of a song that appeared on the soundtrack to the movie Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead.

Johnston doesn't typically use events in the lives of friends as inspiration for his songs, but this is an exception.

[4] Another highlight, "Gone to See the Fire," concerns a woman gradually working out a very disturbing secret about her boyfriend.

He wrote it with Stan Lynch, the album's drummer, who is best known for his work with Tom Petty.