
Smith confirmed with Davis that his single, “Bar None,” was a late addition to his third studio album, Learn the Hard Way. Davis chuckled, “Very late, very late edition.” He explained, “So that was an outside song. I think we’d had 15 or 16 songs cut. I kind of had my eye on a few other songs to announce the release, and I got this song in an email. Could not stop listening to it. From the demo, I drove around. I remember when I got it, I was probably six or seven minutes away from my house. Listened to it, listened to it again, and then got close to the house, and I was like, ‘All right, I need to take the block.’ I mean, I drove around for another 10 minutes. By the time I got out of the car, I already knew the song.”

