On “Voices,” a duet with Lea Jane Berinati, the jilted male lover has no sympathy for the woman begging his forgiveness, as Coe sings “You broke your promise and left me with a lie.” AllMusic writer Thom Jurek deems the collection “some of Coe's bitterest, most accusatory breakup songs…” The mood picks up considerably on Drinking Side with “She Loved the Leavin’ Out of Me,” another one of Coe’s Jimmy Buffett-style recordings, and Coe dedicates “Whiskey, Whiskey (Take My Mind)” to Buffett, a surprise considering the two feuded after Buffet accused Coe of plagiarism years before.