So if I had to pick a favorite on the record, I would probably pick ‘Why Johnny.’ It’s, you know, a letter to June. And it’s kind of just like wanting to sit down with June and ask her. How did you know Johnny Cash was eventually going to be writing you love letters every day? And I think it took us like eight or nine hours to write, because we were just trying to get it perfect. And my fingers were actually bleeding by the time we got done with the song. So Connor Matthews brought in the idea ‘Why Johnny,’ but he was like, you know, ‘why Johnny did you have to set the bar so high?’ And I was like, ‘I’m down to write about Johnny and June. But I don’t know enough about the relationship to do that. So let’s dive in.’ And we were kind of looking at their relationship for like, an hour and a half on the internet. And we actually found out, I didn’t realize that they were married to two different people, and then that and Johnny Cash was an alcoholic. And they were just, you know, had to work through some things to get to where they got to. So I was it’s kind of just like a letter to June like, ‘how did you know that things were going to change’ and because everyone knows them as an iconic love story, which they eventually were but it didn’t happen overnight. So it’s a letter to June.

— via Country Now