This album features recordings from Ford's October 2012 performance at the Canyon Club in Agoura Hills, California.

Lita's quotes about the album was "There was nothing on it but raw energy, and that's what you get with The Bitch is Back.

[6] Music Enthusiast Magazine wrote "Lita Ford captivates both her in-house and at-home audience through the entire performance, and kept the live recording true with no overdubs or engineering trickery.

This is what made the classic live albums of the seventies and eighties so popular, and Lita Ford achieves these goals with the same strength and success.

"[7] On the contrary, veteran journalist Geoff Barton in his review for Classic Rock suggests to "run away" from this album, which "sounds like it was taken straight from the mixing desk and then put in a Moulinex liquidiser until it was reduced to unappetising grey paste.