Will Carter | LIVE @ The Dirty South

When recording his first album, Carter paid careful attention to how things were done. All of which empowered him to fully take the reins for Good Bad Idea. “That’s the main difference between the two albums,” he explains. “It’s about gaining the experience and confidence to be able to step in and say, ’This is the record I want.’ So I learned how to work in the studio hands-on, by seeing how it was done with my own eyes so that I could do it by myself.”

Carter prepared himself well on the creative side too. “I had a very defined idea of what I wanted,” he says. “On the one hand, I wanted the new album to capture the feel of the music I grew up on. At the same time, I wasn’t out to reinvent the wheel, because it’s 2019 and we need a breath of fresh air.”