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According to Black, he and producer James Stroud spent more time putting this album together than either of those preceding and were " a lot more aggressive in the way we cut and mixed the album ".

Black was also more satisfied with the vocals on this album.

Several of the songs on The Hard Way, including " Burn One Down ", were initially reported to be Black's responses to his situation with Ham.

Cowriter Nicholas refuted the rumors, maintaining that most of those songs were written in the late 1980s.