 Recording took place at RCA Victor's Nashville studio through 1971-2, with the exception of "Thanks", which was recorded in 1970.The album's liner notes were written by "Los Angeles Times" critic Robert Hilburn.In his autobiography, Jennings said he was dissatisfied with RCA Records' decision to release the album without consulting him and insisted that the recordings of him contained scratch vocals, which he intended to use to help the band obtain a good sound; he had planned on redoing the vocals later.