“I kind of set out to do it the exact same way, with the exact same players, but it wasn’t that easy,” the Nashville-based singer, songwriter and bandleader tells Billboard. After an initial mixing session for the material “didn’t quite feel right.” Daniel took a step back and revised everything. Now, he notes, “I feel exponentially better about the record — sonically and, overall, from a song standpoint as well. We were a little more meticulous of what we were looking for this time.” That was a big difference from last year’s self-titled effort, which was recorded and fully mastered over the course of just 12 days.