 Only one of these, Steve Earle's "Nowhere Road", had previously been unreleased.At the time of the album's release, Joe Nick Patoski of "Country Music" wrote, "Most of the tracks are from a period when the first seeds of experimentation began to spill in Music City.Thus, a constant clash of traditional and innovative influences dominates each artist's selections, in most instances, finely woven lyrics hiding behind still slick studio concepts."