Newbury's RCA debut heavily featured songs that had been made into hits by other artists, and there is not much difference between that set and this one.

Newbury largely disowned his RCA recordings, considering 1969's Looks Like Rain his true debut, and this album bears little stylistic similarity to anything else in his catalog.

"The Queen" and "Mister Can't You See" are noteworthy for being co-written by Newbury's friend and fellow Texan Townes Van Zandt.

However, most CD versions add the new Sings His Own songs as bonus tracks to the complete Harlequin Melodies album.

On the album cover, Newbury is wearing a Stetson that had been a gift from producer Felton Jarvis, who had originally received it from Elvis Presley.