The song selection includes several of Cash's personal favorites, as some would later be recorded again for My Mother's Hymn Book. Precious Memories may have been a replacement for an untitled Gospel album that Cash recorded during 1975 but never released; those recordings would be released in 2012 on the album Bootleg Vol. IV: The Soul of Truth.
The song selections include many of Cash's personal favorites, some of which were recorded for an unreleased gospel album from 1975; these recordings were finally released in 2012 on the album Bootleg Vol. IV: The Soul of Truth.