 Guest artists who appear in their own compositions include Frank Christian playing guitar on "Three Flights Up", Bob Dylan playing harmonica on "Boots of Spanish Leather", and John Prine lending harmony vocals on "Speed of the Sound of Loneliness".The album get its name from the Truman Capote novel of the same name.The album rose into the #54 position on the Billboard Pop Albums chart in 1993, although it had no charting singles.