The album was the best-selling studio album of her career, and at the time was the second best-selling album by a female artist (behind only Carole King's Tapestry). It was her first album since Don't Cry Now without long-time musical collaborator Andrew Gold, though it features several of the other Laurel Canyon-based session musicians who appeared on her prior albums, including guitarists Dan Dugmore and Waddy Wachtel, bassist Kenny Edwards, and producer and multi-instrumentalist Peter Asher.
The album was her career's top-selling studio release, and at that time it was the second-best selling female artist album (outdone only by Carole King's Tapestry). It marked her first release since Don't Cry Now without longtime musical partner Andrew Gold, though it included several session musicians from Laurel Canyon who had appeared on previous albums, such as guitarists Dan Dugmore and Waddy Wachtel, bassist Kenny Edwards, and producer and multi-instrumentalist Peter Asher.