 Individual band members brought in songs that they had considered for solo efforts (guitarist Mark Bryan, with "Turn It Up") or that resulted from jam sessions (singer Darius Rucker with pop musician Ed Sheeran on "Wildfire Love"), finally arriving at 17 tracks recorded in the studio.The band worked with outside songwriters for this recording, admonishing them, "We don’t want you to write the Hootie song... Write a song and we’ll make it sound like Hootie.