Split with Virgin Records

The Wallflowers continued to tour through the first half of 1993 but despite this sales of the album were slow. In total, 40,000 copies were sold. Reviews for the album, however, were mostly positive. Rolling Stone gave the album 4 stars calling it, “one sweet debut” and describing Dylan’s songwriting as “impressive.” Great reviews notwithstanding, executives at Virgin Records were reportedly not pleased with the album’s lack of commercial success. Around that time, the company was going through a shift in management which led to the removal of Jeff Ayeroff and Jordan Harris, the two people who initially brought The Wallflowers to Virgin. After Ayeroff and Harris left the company The Wallflowers began to feel that they had no future with Virgin and asked to be released from their contract. The split with Virgin has been regarded as mutual. By mid-1993 The Wallflowers were without a record label.