Seth Walker hadn’t written or performed music in years before his mother, living with corticobasal degeneration, a rare and rapidly progressing neurological disease, asked him at the end of 2025 simply to sing for her. Rather than just singing, he started writing. “Just One More,” out June 12th, is the result, written in her living room in Muscatine, Iowa, beside the recliner where she spends most of her days, with Walker sharing each lyric with her as he wrote it and folding her reactions back into the song in real time. It’s less a song written about her than one written with her.
The emotional center of the track took shape on the long drive back to Fort Lauderdale afterward, Walker turning over the visit in his head and sitting with the very real uncertainty of whether he’d see her again. That uncertainty is the song’s whole subject: the specific ache of not knowing if a goodbye is the last one, and the wish for just one more ordinary moment together. Musically, “Just One More” starts on a quiet, intimate piano before opening into warmer tropical house rhythms and synths, a deliberate choice on Walker’s part to let the song lean toward hope rather than heartbreak, even with everything underneath it. The cover art, a real photograph of Walker and his mother on her Iowa porch swing, keeps that same instinct going visually, choosing a small, specific memory over anything more staged.
Walker has used AI-assisted production tools to help bring the arrangement to life, but by his own account, every lyric and every creative decision behind them is entirely his own, drawn directly from real conversations with his mother rather than anything generated.
What makes this release land the way it does is how specific it stays. It isn’t a generalized song about loss; it’s one particular son, one particular thousand-mile distance, and one particular recliner in a living room in Iowa. With his mother now in home hospice care, Walker has said he feels an even greater urgency to keep telling her story while she’s still here to hear it, and “Just One More” carries that urgency plainly, a son trying to hold onto every bit of time he still has left with her.