Last week (Aug. 20), Worsham released his debut album Rubberband. Among the 11 tracks he cowrote for the album is "Could It Be," which hit radio earlier this year and is this week in the Top 20. It's the story of two friends going out, having a few drinks, and then crossing a line and realizing there might be something more to it than just friendship.

Worsham sat down with Radio.com during release week to talk about how Rubberband came together, including what inspired "Could It Be."

"The song was written not long after I met Ryan Tyndell, who wrote a lot of the songs with me on Rubberband and also coproduced my album with me," Worsham explained. Aside from working with Worsham, Tyndell's other accomplishments include cowriting Eric Church's "Springsteen" and contributing songs to Dierks Bentley's upcoming album Riser.

"When we first met, Ryan and I were honestly both down in the dumps," Worsham recalled. "I had left a particular situation, and he had left another particular situation, both professionally and personally. I swear we wrote the song out of sheer desperation for something hopeful. We had the first verse and the part of 'Who knows we might go down in flames/But then again I might just change your name,' but we didn't have a title or a chorus. We brought it into a writing session with Marty Dodson, and after a few more hours we had 'Could It Be.'"

Worsham said the process of making Rubberband pushed him out of his comfort zone and challenged him as a songwriter. And as a native of Grenada, Miss., it's no surprise that the song he's most proud of is the personal and heart-wrenching "Mississippi In July." It's about watching a former flame tying the knot and feeling the twinge of "what if."