Two Cups of Coffee

Album: Georgia Clay (2011)
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  • Josh Kelley married the actress Katherine Heigl in 2007, so as you can imagine, there were lots of phone calls from hotel rooms as they talked to each other when Josh was on the road. Telling the story about this song, Kelley said: "When I was doing a show as an indie artist, they put me up in this nice hotel and brought breakfast up and set up two place settings, even though my wife wasn't with me. I was on the phone with her and said, 'I've got too much of me and not enough of you, honey,' and that was when the song took life. 'Two Cups of Coffee' came out of feeling sad and feeling the distance between us. While we were recording it, I brought my harmonica into the studio and kind of jokingly said to my producer that it might be fun to play around with it on this song. We laid down the track with the harmonica intro and he encouraged me to leave it on there. I love that song."

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