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I've actually always wanted to make something like an acoustic record.

I had this old wind-up phonograph when I was a kid, and I'd listen to records. And the radio.

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.

I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.

When I started to record, I could sing in pitch, but that was maybe about it.

I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.

I wanted to make sounds that I'd never heard before.

With streaming services, the walls have come down a bit on genres. So I never really set out to make a country record or a pop record. I just wanted to make it mine.

I knew absolutely nothing about recording. I had this four-track recorder, and I'd plug my electric guitar right into it, which sounded real bad. I moved any fader that made a drastic change in sound. I thought that was cool - that it was communicating something. I didn't have the skills to do anything subtle. It was just like screaming.