 Her ballad "Conestoga" evokes the sound of America's western migration era, followed by the very modern electric guitar-and-bass production style of the breakup song "Poison".A few tracks later, the traditional "Soldier's Joy" itself evokes Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers.The title track depicts a day in the life of a typical farmer in a series of verses that neither romanticize nor bemoan an existence that most Americans no longer understand.