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“I finally just sold my work truck for a sprinter van, so I’m in it now,” Thomas joked. “I don’t have a job anymore or a personal vehicle… full plunge into this music career, this path I’m on.”
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The group is fronted by Juan Carlos Reynoso on bajo sexto and Charles De Castro on accordion, and features Patrick Morrison on tololoche.
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“I knew long ago this is a long game, and I just was told at a young age that ‘if you’re going to do this, you really need to write and record music that you actually want to listen to,’ and I took that seriously,” Lewis said. “I still feel like I’m a developing artist…
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“The album got me sober,” Henry said. “It kind of became a concept album about grief. A lot of the songs are like a conversation between the two of us.”
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“This is the work of me staying up all night and going insane and losing sleep,” Filler said,” but there’s no price for good art. It’s a sacrifice.”
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“My musical tastes really started to shift away from what I was being presented culturally as a teenager into stuff that resonated more deeply,” Stone said.
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“That’s really the best part of this kind of music is it’s such a community thing,” Faulkner said. “Anybody can sit down and jump in and even just sing along.”
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“I’m glad that I’ve never stopped,” Hanners said, “and it sounds obvious and dumb to say that, but it’s so easy for life to pull you away from the things that are your creative outlet. It’s been a good feeling to start to hit the release button on these tracks.”
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“It was sort of a warning to me at the time,” Campbell said. “He was like ‘go to school because these factory jobs that everybody grew up doing don’t really exist anymore.’”
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“Hitchhiking was a great place to see that,” Mercier said. “Just everything I needed was provided for me, and sometimes it felt like miraculous ways.”
Song of the Day
1–2 minutes
Quality Americana 