“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.’”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I went to every songwriter night for about a year consistently, that’s kind of where I met everybody,” Weaver said. “It was just such a good environment.”
“I found success just by writing with my friends and knowing that my friends are going to be the next big thing, and that’s going to hopefully work out well for us,” Oakley said.
“I began to appreciate what it actually means, or what we don’t know it means when somebody dies,” Waltz said. “I was just hit over the head as a ten year old. I just got extremely panicked by this idea. It was terrifying, the cessation of things.”