I wrote Sad Cowboys and Rock and Roll last November... We had been in the middle of tracking what was intended to be my debut LP record and I kept feeling like we needed one more song to tie it all together. One afternoon I started staring at an illustration I had previously made with the words “Sad Cowboys and Rock and Roll”... And thought, man, that should be a song. So I just started singing it... And before I knew it, the song kinda wrote itself. It felt like I was finally able to articulate who I was, and what the last few years had meant to me... The state of our world, the unsettled political state, the pandemic... My own desire to somehow remain young and optimistic through it all. I recorded the demo on my iPad with a cheap headphone microphone... and sent it to my producers. And to my surprise, they connected with it to... We brought it into the studio and created a whole world for this tune to live in. It quickly became a favorite. Almost every session after that we would pull it up and tweak something new on it, even if that’s not what we were supposed to be working on. I want to thank Jon Smalt @jonathansmalt (producer) and Reid Leslie @rcleslie (audio engineer / Co-producer) for helping me make this tune possible. They are a force behind the beautiful production that is the song you are now listening to. These two men put their hard work, time, and creativity into making this track something very special. I also want to thank @jnslrzno for his guitar and pedal steel wizardry... He’s a musical genius, and a master of his craft. I want to thank my dear and incredibly talented friend Victoria Bigelow @victoriabigelow for featuring her sultry voice to this track. The background vocals and melodic lines would not be the same without you. Huge thanks to @micahtawlks and @voyagermastering for making the final track sound like a million dollars. Thank you to @itslilynelson for the incredible photoshoot. She did an amazing job with very little time to execute. Finally, thank you. The fans.... the listener. You’ve made the past 17 years of my life worth while... And given me hope that maybe, just maybe I can do this for a living. All the love. - V