When Steven Tyler first started talking about recording an original country album, he wanted to test out the songwriting waters to see if he felt like he could write some quality material. When he spoke to label president Scott Borchetta he says, “I told him I’d like to write a few songs and try to dig my spurs in a little and see if I got knocked off the bronco, so to speak. And after three weeks down there I sweetly, by the grace of God, got myself three or four songs and I thought, this is it, this is where I wanna be. This is the energy, this is the music, this is the kinda thing I’ve been lookin’ forward to doin’ pretty much my whole life.”

While he didn’t write his debut country single, “Love is Your Name,” Steven does plan to have several songs he did write on his debut country album.

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“I told him I’d like to write a few songs and try to dig my spurs in a little and see if I got knocked off the bronco, so to speak, and after three weeks down there I sweetly, by the grace of God, got myself three or four songs and I thought, this is it, this is where I wanna be. This is the energy, this is the music, this is the kinda thing I’ve been lookin’ forward to doin’ pretty much my whole life.”