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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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“I hope everybody enjoys it as much as I enjoyed putting it all together,” Lewandowski said. “Long live Bobby Osborne. Keep on keepin’ on.”
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“It’s sort of a reckoning to me,” Delynn said. “It was like reckoning with myself of like ‘OK here’s where I am in life, here’s sort of the decisions that I’ve made up until this point, and for better or worse this is where I find myself.’”
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“I think the thing that set me off in the direction that I am musically now is around 2014 discovering Jason Isbell,” Funkhouser said. “That was kind of the big impetus into me getting into the Americana space.”
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“We just wanted to write a love song that was a little bit more realistic,” Greene said. “In the song we talk about ‘rose colored glasses,’ like less fantasy love, more real love.”
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“It was a poem that I wrote about memories,” Valido said. “They’re always going to be lingering around, especially the good ones.”
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“We’re all the same, for all the conflict in the world, and the politics, and all the nonsense that’s going on, we are all the same,” Loftin said. “All of us cry tears. We all bleed red. We can all be hurt by something someone said.”
Song of the Day
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