In a new interview with Garden & Gun, Gregg Allman dished on a variety of topics including revealing that he plans on recording an album at Muscle Shoals with renowned musician and producer Don Was. “It will kind of be like my first solo record Laid Back,” Allman said. “Man, I don’t see why the Brothers never went there. The place is magic.”

One of the more interesting revelations came when Allman was prompted about working with another artist. He chose pop singer Sam Smith. “God, he has the most beautiful set of pipes. Me and him and a nice, sad love song would just be dandy,” he said. Allman also wished Smith well following his vocal struggles, saying, “He’s had some problems with his voice and nodes on his vocal cords. You can’t utter a sound after those vocal cords get scraped. I’ve fortunately never been cursed with it. I hope he’s feeling alright.”

He also spoke on his health briefly, saying he feels “on top of it.” Adding, “the live is treating me well. Only bad thing is one of these pills I have to take, a side effect is that it lowers your immune system. So I wash my hands all the time, like eight or nine times a day.”