 Leon Payne was a honky tonk songwriter who only had one chart hit, the sentimental "I Love You Because", but composed a slew of hits for other artists, most notably "Lost Highway" and "They'll Never Take Her Love from Me" for country music icon Hank Williams.Jones had been recording Payne's songs since his early days on Mercury Records and this collection, which features nine songs written solely by Payne, would be his last for Musicor (Jones recorded a similar album called "Sings the Songs of Dallas Frazier" in 1968 with similar artwork).