Okay, it's a full-blown cowboy opera. Okay there are some old source recordings of music and spoken word that are hard to understand sometimes. Okay, once in a while the main theme is repeated more often that I wanted it to be. But there's nothing else like it that I know of, there's no one with the breadth of ambition that Tom Russell demonstrates in record after record, there's probably no one else in country music who follows his artistic vision to such lengths while thinking less about commercial success, and this is a kind of masterpiece as far as I'm concerned.