When Zach and I finished the production for a One House Down, I knew that he knew him.

I said, would you text him this song and ask him to play solo on it?

And Zach was like, I'd give it 19% chance that he says yes.

And I said, I'll take 19%.

And he said yes.

I did not know if she was on Songland.

Do you know that?

I didn't know that.

Huh.

And Songland just took like really good songwriters.

Her name is Madeline Merlo.

I really enjoy talking with her.

I have this thing where I walk down to

the studio. If I've never met the person, I knew what she looked like because I'd seen her on

Dustin Lynch's Instagram. And there's always that first three or four minutes of any interview

where you're kind of like early in a boxing match. You're kind ofling each other how's this going to work and I feel like at like three or four minutes we were

like oh okay we got some stuff we can talk about yeah I thought the click yeah there was a click

especially when she was volunteering like her time in therapy and I'm like oh I can I can go there

and that'll open us up to a lot of other things. Because that's as vulnerable as it gets when you start talking about, like, your feelings and

your insecurities and then it was like, I liked her.

And so I thought I went pretty good.

She grew up in Maple Ridge, BC, Canada, which is left side, right?

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