 With the release of "Spooky Lady’s Sideshow", Kristofferson would begin a commercial slide and never again attain the sales he had up to that point.Rather than record with longtime producer Fred Foster in Nashville, the singer opted to record with Coolidge’s producer David Anderle at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles, and the resultant LP, sandwiched between two duet albums with wife Coolidge in 1973 and 1974, deals almost exclusively with dissipation and decline, to the point where it could be viewed as a concept album.As William Ruhlmann observed in his AllMusic review of the LP, “Over and over, Kristofferson sang of characters and of himself (or, at any rate in the persona of a first-person narrator) going downhill while consuming liquor and drugs.