Despite featuring some profanity (heard in "Everybody Out of the Water"), Red Letter Days does not carry a Parental Advisory sticker.

[4] Red Letter Days was the first Wallflowers record that featured Jakob Dylan playing a majority of the lead guitar parts.

After years of fetching hundreds of dollars for an original pressing on the open market, Red Letter Days was reissued on LP for its 15th anniversary on November 3, 2017.

Rolling Stone called it "a straightforward barnburner of an album" while Mojo commented that "The Wallflowers make some of the best radio-friendly hooks and melodies around."

"[5] All songs written by Jakob Dylan Japanese bonus tracks "Everybody Out of the Water" has been used in an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,[6] and "The Empire in My Mind" was the main theme of the television series The Guardian for its second and third seasons.