"Thanks I'll Eat It Here" is an eclectic mix of styles reminiscent of Little Feat's earlier albums - in particular "Dixie Chicken", on which the track "Two Trains" originally appeared.The album was released just before the death of Lowell George in 1979 and has cover art by Neon Park (a feature of almost all Little Feat albums) containing several pop-/cult references including a picnic scene, mirroring Édouard Manet's "Le déjeuner sur l'herbe", which shows Bob Dylan, Fidel Castro and Marlene Dietrich as Der Blaue Engel with an open copy of "Howl" beside them.