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“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.”
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“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.
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“I just really like to get lost in music and the environment of it,” Wyatt said. “I’ve been trying to do that more lately.”
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“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.”
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“This song is very simple, but to achieve that simplicity, I had to reach 40 years old, travel thousands of miles south, and simply contemplate,” Bernal said. ““It was so easy, wasn’t it?!”
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“I kind of moved to Austin on a whim when I was twenty years old,” Stevens said. “My brother was in a band and had played here and said it was cool and that’s about all it took.”
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“I think I’m just breaking in right now,” Stockton said. “I sort of did a hard relaunch of my musical brand, because I actually just started writing new songs for the first time in a long time.”
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“I worked forever on that,” Christen said. “I went through all these chord progressions, I looked for co-writers, I read up on him. He was a Texas healer back in the 1880s.”
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“It was a time in my life where I really proved to myself that I was super capable and independent and really strong and solid on my own,” Brisson said. “I feel like this is a musical reflection of that.”
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“It kind of limits what you can do,” Schmitt said. “You can’t just sit there and make five hundred takes because tape’s expensive and you’ll wear it out if you keep recording, so you have to go in prepared. It’s in the moment.”
Song of the Day
1–2 minutes
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