Content
Several songs on this album are covers. "I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome" was co-written by Bill Monroe and Hank Williams and was featured on Monroe's 1966 album, High Lonesome Sound of Bill Monroe. In addition, "Get Back to the Country" was released as a single in 1985 by Neil Young from his album Old Ways.
Critical reception
Jana Pendragon of Allmusic gave the album four-and-a-half stars out of five, comparing it to Dwight Yoakam's Hillbilly Deluxe in style and saying, "Stuart kicks country-pop in its well-defined hindquarters[…]But Stuart is just as deadly when he slows things down and does a ballad."[2]
Personnel
As listed in liner notes.[7]
- Sam Bacco - percussion, timpani
- Amanda Bennett - tambourine, hand claps
- Richard Bennett - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin, 6 string bass, mandolin-guitarophone
- Bill Cuomo - Hammond organ
- Stuart Duncan - fiddle
- Dave Durocher - drums on tracks 2, 5, 7
- Ray Flacke - electric guitar on tracks 2, 5, 7
- Paul Franklin - steel guitar
- Ray Herndon - background vocals
- John Barlow Jarvis - keyboards
- Paul Kennerley - background vocals
- Kostas - background vocals
- Larry Marrs - bass guitar on tracks 2, 5, 7, background vocals
- Alan O'Bryant - background vocals
- Mark O'Connor - fiddle
- Les & Janice Reynolds – hand claps
- Harry Stinson - drums
- Marty Stuart - lead vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin
- Billy Thomas - background vocals
- Glenn Worf - bass guitar