"I was blown away," Auerbach told The Tennessean. "There's so much variation. It wasn't just one thing. That's obvious because it's Tony Joe. But when you're faced with this whole little bundle of brand new songs and they all fit together like some strange puzzle, even though they're not the same genre, I just love that so much. "[It's] stuff that makes you feel good. I connected to that." Tony Joe White recorded the backbone of "Smoke From The Chimney" roughly three to five years before death, per his son. But the songs time-travel through decades and genres impacted by the singer.