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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.”
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“There comes a point in every journey where the leaving turns into coming to the next place,” Webb said. “You’re leaving Terlingua, but once you kind of shift gears in your mind, then your going to New York, or going to Austin.”
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“It’s something I feel very strongly about right now in the divisive world we live in today,” Lenz says. “It’s an anthem about overcoming adversity and looking at the world in a new light as a new day dawns.”
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“I think about being a young musician and imagining like all these things that you want to do and that was the exact kind of thing I always dreamt of doing,” Kerl said. “Getting together with these people who I really admired and looked up to and just like camping out in the studio for…
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“The verses in that song are all so personal to me,” Kirk said, “and they’re all super heavy experiences. In songwriting when it starts to come together you just kind of let it happen, you know.”
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“I enjoy trying to write about our lives today with the straightforward simplicity of those old songs. It makes it easy for anybody to digest when I can condense the hundreds of words I’m trying to say into three minutes.”
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“I’m so proud to be of Texas roots,” Azlan said. “We’re so blessed to be from a part of our state that is just gorgeous, where the culture is rich.”
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“I grew up in Magnolia, Texas,” Hanna said. “The album is named after my hometown. I call it my stomping grounds. Most of the songs have some kind of ties to that area.”
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