Drew Green’s new album, Dirt Boy Volume 1 is out! The banker turned songwriter turned artist wanted to put his own spin on his debut record, which is evident in all seven songs on the project.

“Half of the songs I’ve had with me for about three years,” Drew told Everything Nash. “So they’ve kind of just traveled with me as a songwriter, and stuck with me. One of them is one that I’ve said got me a record deal. It’s half of me as the artist and half the commercial songwriter, blending those together. It’s been six years of just finding my sound. It’s been it’s really, really cool. I think you’ll love it.”

Drew has already written plenty of songs, but it’s his current single, “Little More Be Alright,” that he is most excited about.

“That’s probably my favorite song I’ve ever written,” Drew shared. “I was playing a show. I was opening up for Darryl Worley last year and the guy who was booking the show called me. He’s a good buddy of mine, especially now, but he was talking about some land that he wanted. He mentioned that he wanted it, but he couldn’t afford it. He’s like, ‘Screw it. I’m gonna buy it.’ And then he said, ‘You know, a little more would be better.’ It stuck with me. I wrote that idea down on my phone.”

As a songwriter, one of Drew’s cuts includes “Colorado,” which is on Florida Georgia Line‘s latest Can’t Say I Ain’t Country record. Drew, who wrote the song with HARDY and Hunter Phelps, is grateful for the support he has already received from his famous friends in country music.

“We talk to each other all the time,” Drew said. “A lot of artists that are probably a year ahead of me, or two years ahead of me, that I grew up with, we always ask each other opinions and what works for some people still here. In some ways, you put yourself in someone else’s shoes sometimes and tell them what you think the best thing is … We are always asking each other’s opinion about something.”

Drew came to a pivotal moment in his career several years ago, when he was offered a big promotion at his former job, working at a bank. While for some it would have been a dream come true, the singer-songwriter knew he had to turn it down.

“Luckily my boss understood that completely, because I could see in his face that he regretted something that he didn’t do when he was younger,” Drew recounted. “We talked for a while, and he said anytime that you want to come back, come back. We left in really, really good standing. I don’t regret it. There are days where I miss the city life, and formal business situations, but for the most part, I’m so blessed and thankful for my job. And I feel like I work way more now.”

Thankfully, Drew also had the support of his wife, who didn’t flinch when he said he wanted to pursue music full-time.

“She was with me five years before I did that,” Drew said. “So she knew that it was coming. She supported me 100 percent all the way through it. I just remember telling her that I would regret it forever if I didn’t do it. We did sit down and make somewhat of a plan, a five-year success plan, and it all happened.”

Dirt Boy Vol. 1 is available here.