Solid Gold was a long time in the making; personally and professionally. I had always known I would record my own record with my own songs, but at the time of realizing that, I hadn’t lived any life yet to sing about anything. It was only through years of having a drummer’s backseat in the music industry, and living life outside of it, that I finally had enough to say. Through persistent pressure from Sturgill asking, “what’s in those notebooks?” I decided to sing him all of these songs. We planned accordingly to record when the time was right. Come January 2022, we hit the studio with an amazing crew of musicians and engineers and recorded 12 songs in 3 days.Solid Gold is a love story, but about love being around and love leaving. It’s an entire story essentially about wanting to get back to the love you have, realizing you shouldn’t give it away, to love leaving, hitting the road because of it leaving, feeling love on the road, to realizing you need to keep walking and wish them well. It’s an album about the cycle of a love story that goes away.