In Spite Of Ourselves notes
"I was off for six months recuperating from my cancer treatment and getting lazy reading Archie comics. One day Billy Bob Thornton called to do a movie called "Daddy and Them" where I played Andy Griffith's son so that makes me Opie's step-brother. This movie is so important they haven't figured out when to put it out. Billy Bob asked me to write a song for the movie, and I always wondered how they figured out what songs go into a movie, because sometimes they put a song in a movie that has nothing to do with the movie, so I asked Billy Bob if I should write a song that is about the movie or not...Billy Bob just said..."umggghhh." I usually do this song with Iris DeMent, she sings the girl part, but since she's not here, I'll sing both parts."
Iris DeMent: on how much fun was it singing with John Prine on the hilarious title-track [Sample lyric: “He ain’t got laid in a month of Sundays / I caught him once and he was sniffin’ my undies”]
"Yes, it still goes to my nervous system. That song was a hurdle for me. It seems silly now, but, lyrically, it was kind of a stretch for me to sing the first time. I’ve sang it a thousand times now and it doesn’t phase me. The song was a turning point in my life [she laughs again], now I love singing it. When [Prine] called he had just bounced back from cancer and asked me to come in sing it. His wife Fiona was yelling: “You better read the lyrics!” I experienced a little choking episode when the fax came through with the lyrics. But I’m glad I did it. It was good for me."