The album was a top 15 success on the Americana Chart.

Their music has recently found more exposure on the HBO hit television series True Blood and Joan of Arcadia, and their four albums have all spent time at the top of the worldwide Americana Charts.

In November 2008 the Americana Music Association announced the Top 100 Albums of the Americana Charts for 2008 and The Band of Heathens came in at No. 8, thus referencing the Band Of Heathens Album as the 8th most played record on the Americana Airplay Charts for 2008.

The most recent album to include the song before Johnny Rodriguez's 2011 Live from Texas, Dave Alvin's West of the West reached the top five on the Americana Chart in June 2006.

Shortly thereafter, Opus released Carrie Rodriguez' Love and Circumstance which remained in the top three on Billboard's Americana Charts for over six weeks.

Their 1996 album, Sugar for Sugar, spent 11 weeks in the Top 20 of Gavin's Americana Chart.

The album spent 9 weeks in the Top 40 of the Americana Chart.

Their album Love and Other Tragedies reached number 15 on the Americana Charts on June 30, 2008.

His first recording for the Signature Sounds label, Compass & Companion, spent ten weeks in the Top Ten on the Americana Chart.