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front door, because he was willing to work, in 2014. And we cut a record in that same “We kinda get our ass kissed in the
because as he said, he’s nonstop work and year, so we didn’t see our families a whole States a little bit,” says Scotty. “Over here
I wanted to get a jump on it and come work. lot. It tore our hearts out of our chests. And we’re not, so it’s like we’re starting over
And I showed up and knocked on the door now we’re still learning how to work smart, again. It’s fantastic. We’re getting to make
and he answered the door and the first not hard. There’s no reason to do more music and be together and start together
thing I told him was, ‘I’m not a singer. The than 200 shows a year, and we still seem to again. We’re a real band.”
only reason I sing is because I hate do it. So we’re slowly telling our agent to “Every one of us comes from humble
singers!” He laughs again. “He goes, back off that so we can put a new album out beginnings,” explains Scott. “We say in the
‘Come ‘ere!’ I said, ‘I can’t sing,’ He’s like, that we’re really proud of.” States a ‘juke joint’, which is a bar that
‘Do not worry. In six months, we will make “We also love to play so it’s hard to holds about 40 people. And that’s where we
you a singer.’ And they absolutely did.” stop playing for us too,” adds Scotty. come from. Now, granted, we’ve seen the
“True story,” confirms Scott. “Yeah. We go home for two weeks and arenas in the U.S. and we’ve been blessed
are like, ‘What are we doing? We should be like Scotty just said to play huge rooms, but
o, with the line-up now a real broth- doing something else.’ It’s a very tricky bal- here we have to break in the soil, we have
Serhood, they spend a lot of their ancing act. But we’re all learning how to do to let people know that we’re not afraid to
time out on the road together - although are it in our own way.” carry our gear up two flights of stairs.”
trying to ease the pace ever so slightly. The UK and European tour helped bring “We’re not rock stars, we’re musi-
“That’s probably the hardest part for us. We the band even closer together as a group, cians.”
have families that we have to see too. I due to the fact that they hadn’t been here “Now we’re a little bit old so our backs
think when we rebranded we did over 300 before and were playing smaller venues hurt a little bit, but we’re still here,” adds
shows in one year,” says Scott. “That was than they usually do in the States. Scott.

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