

The song is the first song Roach ever penned but remained unrecorded. The album's lead single "Open Your Eyes" was released on 27 September 2019. He was also inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2020, the album was nominated for three categories and Roach won both Best Male Artist and Best Adult Contemporary Album. It was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2020 National Indigenous Music Awards. The album re-imagines 11 songs that have defined Roach's career, together with two songs that were written and never recorded, two songs of early influence, and three brand new recordings. Tell Me Why is a companion album to Australian singer songwriter Archie Roach's memoir of the same name.
