Church started his songwriting of the album on his guitar, nicknamed "Butter Bean" by his son, in the latter part of the summer. Originally, he set out to create a collaboration album with other country artists about their journey in music:
“Initially, it was going to be a collaboration album. '''''I had contacted Willie, I’d contacted Kris Kristofferson, I’d contacted Bob Seger, Billy Joel and all these people. And I said, ‘Hey, I want to do this album where we get together and we make an album about what we all share, which is this journey in music.'”''''' Within just twenty days, he had twenty songs written for the album, when he went into the studio, where twenty days later after some recording sessions, the ten tracks that comprise this album were finished. This album was produced at St. Charles Studios in
Nashville, Tennessee. The song, "Mixed Drinks about Feelings", featured blues and blue-eyed soul performer,
Susan Tedeschi. Church put on the cover, McKinley James "Mickey" Smay, who is a 14-year old in the ninth grade at a high school located in
Rochester, New York, where he also makes an appearance on the music video for this song, while his father is a
rock music drummer, Jason Smay. ==Release and promotion==