Luke Grimes

Usually you go into a studio, you know, there's a lot of money behind it.

You've got a big producer.

You're taking up their time.

You have everything ready to go.

But on this new one, we did everything.

There's only two songs I'd had already written, and eight out of the ten songs we wrote either the day of or the night before in the studio because I wanted to make something as personal as possible because, you know, the subject matter is stuff where I'm like,

If this is gimmicky or overthought, then I'm sort of trying to capitalize on grief or things I'm talking about.

I want to go in and just be as open as possible and just get what we get and just try to tell the truth, which is the goal of country, really, or it used to be.

And so yeah, we would cut, and then in the night after we'd cut, we'd sit and try to write the song for the next day.

And if we didn't get it, we'd show up early the next day and try to write the song for that day.

And it was an amazing process.

We called it the pressure cooker, because it was just like, you better get something, because you're on the clock.

Man, I doubt I'll ever do that again.

but what a like cathartic amazing process like there's because usually you'll write a song you'll have a demo for it some something where you just sit down and play guitar into your phone or something so you'll remember the melody remember the chords and you listen to it so much that you get sick of it before you ever even cut it and with this there was never a demo there was never it was straight from you know heart brain tape like it was it was pretty special

Yeah, the pressure cooker, man.

We had to.

Yeah.

It was amazing.

Yeah.

Yeah.