Was ‘Dear Darlin’ inspired by a particular woman or is it an amalgamation of stories and experiences? I try to write a song with him every day. Jon is my buddy and my favourite writer, we wrote a few tracks together for the album, like ‘Dear Darlin’. My co-writer and I, Jon Decious, decided to write a song about each other one day! I was pretty much living in his trailer after my house had burnt down and we were doing these writing exercises and so ‘Single Wide Dreamer’ is the combination of the two songs we wrote that morning, although his song was better and we ended up taking more of that than we did mine! (laughing) Your review of the album felt pretty much right on. In our review we describe it as being about a man out of touch with the modern world but very much at peace with himself.
Let’s pick up there then and talk about the title track, ‘Single Wide Dreamer’. You live and learn and what I’ve learnt is that you maybe need to put some faster, uptempo songs out first! (laughing) We’ve already put out a few songs ahead of the album, like ‘Dear Darlin’ but most were slower and you have to have the patience to sit with it a little, which some people in this modern age don’t have. That’s half the battle, figuring out which songs to put out and which to sit on for a bit. I’ve got thousands of songs stored away, it’s just a matter of working out which ones are going to be the ones that push all the buttons. Oh no! Anderson and I are about eight songs into the next record already and I’ve got a pile of songs ready to go. Let’s hope there isn’t another eight years before your next album! I’ve had some of these songs for eight years, they’ve just followed me around so we decided that they just must be for me! (laughing) I’ve been writing songs with them and for other people for 15 years now, so the role reversal of the songs being for me was really interesting. Miranda made sure just to keep it Country! (laughing) Every time we started to go too far down into a Pop or Rock n Roll hole she would bring it back to Country.Īnderson’s musical touch and Miranda’s Country expertise are what define this record. He’s a great engineer who has worked on a lot of records. Anderson played a lot of the instruments and did a lot of button pushing. The songs that help people are the ones that I like the best.Ī lot of people will ask you this, but ‘Single Wide Dreamer’ was produced by Anderson East and Miranda Lambert. There’s a rapper named Jelly Roll that has sampled it recently and turned it into a rap song, which has blown my mind. I was drinking a lot and messing myself up a lot at the time and I realised that all my problems were really just my fault, hence the chorus line of ‘My only enemy is me.’ There’s a song called ‘Enemy’ that I wrote with Muscadine Bloodline which I love. Oh man, I love ‘Voodoo Doll’, what a great song that is. Do you have a favourite cut that has been recorded by somebody else? You’ll be more known over here in the UK (for now) for the tracks you’ve written for other people, like ‘Tall Guys’ with Maren Morris and ‘Voodoo Doll’ for Ashey McBryde.
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