[1] Expanded versions of the album featuring a 9-song live performance recorded at Texas A&M University in November 1978 were released by Air Mail Archive in Japan in 2013 (AIRAC-1701) and US label Omnivore in 2014 (OVCD-98).

It's a melancholy album because it looks back at the unfulfilled promise of American lives in the same way that Bob Seger did with songs like 'Hollywood Nights" and 'Night Moves' and Jackson Browne did with 'The Pretender'.

"[7] However Matthews would later acknowledge that on Stealin' Home, "I tried to add just a couple of songs that had Top 40 potential, without compromising the rest of the material [and the album] did precisely what it was supposed to do: it raised my profile, without lowering my credibility.

"Don't Hang Up Your Dancing Shoes" would be the third single from the US release of Stealin' Home, the immediate followup to "Shake It" being the Robert Palmer composition "Give Me an Inch": having heard the original version of "Give Me an Inch" - introduced on the 1975 Robert Palmer album Pressure Drop - Matthews had wanted to put his own spin on the song.

Matthews would be afforded his final appearance on a Billboard chart via the third single off Stealin' Home: "Don't Hang Up Your Dancing Shoes", which peaked at #42 on the magazine's Easy Listening hit ranking, on which "Shake It" had reached #21 and "Give Me an Inch #43.

Expanded versions of the album featuring a 9-song live performance recorded at Texas A&M University in November 1978 ('The Homecoming Concert') were released by Air Mail Archive in Japan in 2013 (AIRAC-1701) [12] and US label Omnivore in 2014 (OVCD-98).