It was the final album by the band before Michael McDonald replaced Tom Johnston as lead vocalist and primary songwriter.

This was the first album featuring Jeff "Skunk" Baxter as a full-fledged member of the band, although he is absent from the cover photo.

The first and most successful single released from this album was "Take Me in Your Arms (Rock Me)" on April 23, 1975, a classic Motown tune written by the legendary songwriting trio of Holland-Dozier-Holland.

The next single, released on July 8, 1975, was "Sweet Maxine" which was more akin to the Doobie Brothers' earlier hits style-wise.

The album version of the song is a progressive rock-style composition ending in a twisted collage of strings, horns and synthesizers made to sound like ghostly wails.

[7] Cash Box said it was a "rather lengthy piece quite unlike any previous single release from this super-group" and "a low-key ballad carried by a single, melodic voice against flowing guitar picking that grows into beautiful vocal harmony from the group, soon to segue into sustained orchestration holding a sweeping power chord under which some jazz improvisation goes on.