 The song has become a bluegrass standard, with Prine telling Jasper Rees of theArtsdesk.com that "When bluegrass musicians gather together, whenever they're together for more than an hour, I'd say that 'Paradise' is one of those songs that one of them starts to play it and they all know it.Which is pretty neat cos it's a real close personal song.It was written for my father about where all my family's from, that doesn't exist any more, and to think a song like that - I wasn't even going to record it because I didn't think anybody would be able to pronounce Muhlenberg."