This album wasn´t Lightfoot´s breakthrough recording, but it was both a demonstration of the rocking electric turn most folkies would make after Dylan´s revolution, and a commercially successful marriage of soulful, R&B sensibility with folk narratives. The title cut is probably engrained in the memory of anyone with an A.M. radio in the ´70s, but 20 years later, it sounds suggestive, even bluesy. "Carefree Highway" perhaps excessively romanticizes the road, but less familiar tracks like "Watchman´s Gone" and "Too Late for Prayin´" are convincing statements of Lightfoot´s lyrical endurance.