Writer/director Shainee Gabel adapted the screenplay from the previously unpublished novel "Off Magazine Street" by Ronald Everett Capps. Capps' son, Grayson Capps, appears in the film and contributed six songs to its soundtrack.
The production ran into budgetary problems halfway through. Several background extras were brought to a New Orleans location, fitted for costumes, fed dinner, and then sent home without pay because their scene had been cut. Some New Orleans retailers complained that thousands of dollars worth of clothes were returned unused because the scenes they were bought for were never filmed.
Lawson's car is a maroon 1974 Chevrolet Caprice vinyl top.
Bobby's inscription written in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter paperback read 'For Sweet Lorraine, No matter what she was doing there was music. Your singing touched my Soul. Bobby Long.'
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