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- Nov 07, 2020
All I'm really interested in musically is trying to make concept albums. Serving a larger sum than the parts.
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I just can't sit down and write three verses and a chorus and a bridge anymore. It just don't find it inspiring.
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I had a great job with the railroad, a good salary.
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I knew I wanted to make a concept record in song-cycle form, like my favorite Marvin Gaye records where everything just continuously flows.
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I'm grateful to all the non-risk-takers.
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Elvis was a way bigger influence than Waylon Jennings, but you don't wanna tell people, 'I never really listened to Waylon.'
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I'm just gonna write a record for my kid, and if people hate it, it doesn't matter.
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I knew I loved playing bluegrass, so I'd end up down there on Sunday nights at the bluegrass jam.
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I just have to do what it is going to make me happy, first and foremost - what is honest and what is sincere. Anybody that listens will hopefully connect with that.
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Let's just cut a live record with three microphones in four days and talk about lizards and aliens. If I had taken that idea to even an independent label, I don't see a label out there that would've said, 'Oh yeah, that sounds great. We know how to market this.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a long road, so we are just trying to stay focused and grounded and keep moving forward. I'll take it, though.
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Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard and Keith Whitley - guys like that were huge influences.
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It's hard enough to sit at a table and talk to most people as it is. But we can go to some town, and there's 300 people we've never met before, and by the third song, we're connecting with everyone in that room.
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I've been reading about the idea of cyclical lives - it matches up to the idea of string theory and a multiverse. So I wanted to write a record about that instead of another song about broken hearts and drinking.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tried to make a honky-tonk country record - rough-hewn, cut fast, and all analog - like I wasn't hearing anymore.
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There's a lot going on in country music, with indie-label hipsters and underground bloggers arguing their interpretations of what country is, and pop-country stars defending themselves. That deserves to be poked fun at.
- Nov 07, 2020
My wife thinks I'm crazy.
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Back home, playing music is never anything you imagine you can do for a living. It's what you do after work.
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Country music especially can get very formulaic - you know, you have to have your verses and a bridge and a chorus, and a lot of the songs are written as just plain and simple poetry on the road.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything that I'm naturally curious about, I get really into. Maybe it's O.C.D. I get really consumed by something until I absorb it, then I'm done with it.
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I used to play a lot of electric guitar. I don't really consider myself a guitar player anymore. Then I got really into how the pickups work. And winding and de-winding Telecaster pickups. And then building Telecasters. And I became more fascinated with making them than I was with actually playing them. So it's a slippery slope.
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