This Josh Kear, Chris Tompkins and Rodney Clawson penned song was the first single from Frankie Ballard's Sunshine & Whiskey album. "Helluva Life," explained the singer to The Tenesssean, is about the "good stuff and bad stuff that happens to us. We lean on each other in the good times and the bad times, and sometimes it's hard to see where we're going when we're in the middle of it."
Ballard changed his entire process of making music for Sunshine & Whiskey having found a producer in Marshall Altman, who allowed him to get hands-on. "That's all I ever wanted," Ballard said. "I'm a guitar player and I wanted to be involved and experiment a little. We came out with some music that I think really sounds like me."
Ballard told CMT that the first time he heard the song it took him back to his teen years: "I started getting all nostalgic and thinking about high school and thinking about stupid things I did back when I was 16 or 18 or whatever," he recalled. "It's such a cool message - that you've got to appreciate what you have in your life. And it even goes so far as to say you should appreciate the bad times because they make the good times better."
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