Breau and pedal steel player Buddy Emmons had previously recorded together on Minors Aloud.

[1] Originally released on LP in 1982 by the small Tudor Records label, it had neither liner notes nor personnel listed.

[3] Writing for AllMusic, music critic Paul Kohler called the album "A lost gem!

"[4] In reviewing the reissue for JazzTimes, critic Russell Carlson wrote "Breau created an ambiguous fusion of jazz and country on Swingin', nimbly ducking in and out of pedal-steel guitarist Buddy Emmons' syrupy, starlit melodies while coasting along with drummer Kenny Malone's and bassist Jim Ferguson's straightahead swing propulsion... Breau's mastery of an impressionistic Bill Evans style has him pulling ideas and emotion from country music that a pure honky-tonker could never realize.

"[6] John Kelman of All About Jazz praised the album and called Breau "a bolt of lightning when he emerged in the '70s out of Manitoba, Canada".