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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.”
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“I just feel like I’ve become such a better player playing with these guys because they’re so versatile and they’re so talented honestly,” Chase said. “I’m pretty honored to play with them.”
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“They’re not lighthearted songs,” Garza said. “They’re about perseverance, and reflection, and overcoming personal obstacles, and loss and self doubt.”
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“Even in the hard times in the beginning I think I recognized that this is a pretty special thing that I get to do with my life,” Pope said, “so it’s my journey from when I was kid through to this moment.”
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“The way that came out was just kind of naturally sounding like those older guys. I feel like you end up sounding like things that inspired you and things that you listen to.”
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“It’s important for me to make sure my music is rooted in that whole longer journey and not just wrapped up in my own experience,” Payne said. “I want to connect through time back.”
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“These days I’ve been writing a lot about home life,” Ellsworth said. “What the world looks like on a big picture when you’re at home looking into your kid’s eyes trying to figure out what it’s going to be like for them.”
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“There’s moments in that where I’m still really touching about my life the whole time, it’s just dropped in poetically and just scripted enough to where you probably wouldn’t know how much of it actually is me unless we had this conversation.”
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“I realized it was very easy for me to sit down and write a country song because that seemed to be a great vehicle,” Devereaux said. “My songwriter voice seems to be stripping to very essential elements.”
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“I like classic phrases like that for titles,” Marshall said. “I just like little slice of life momentary themes.”
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