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- So as a collective we're from Boone, North Carolina.
I think something that's big
in Boone is a sense of community.
It's kind of an isolated mountain town.
So it's like, there's a lot that's unique there
that kind of just flourishes
because you only have like a limited amount of space
that you're working with to interact with folks.
And so it just kind of draws everybody together
a little bit more and you end up bonding
maybe with people that you wouldn't normally, you know,
like a larger city, end up like bonding with.
We definitely had like different music tastes
and all kinds of stuff, but just like,
by the nature of it
we just happened to be so lucky to end up together.
Music was everything in a sense
and also kind of a dream not to be hoped for
in terms of like success.
We've made a promise when we started this
basically that we were not gonna get that big,
you know what I mean?
Or we weren't gonna
chase the dream. - School came first.
Yes, shool came first and other passions and pursuits.
We were just gonna just have fun with it, you know?
And I think that saved us.
- I mean, the pandemic was really hard on us as musicians,
I mean, in a lot of ways.
But just being able to be back
and be on the road together
and share our music with the fans,
literally be in the same room and have that connection,
it was something that was really hard not to have.
- Yeah, you definitely don't realize
what you got till it's gone kind of thing, you know?
- After going through all that time alone,
like dark times, but finding your way out,
and having that space to settle into your own energy,
and understand what we're doing in a bigger perspective,
I think slowing down was good as bad as everything was.
- I think we grew as musicians and matured as people.
And it was a long two years.
- The music itself has evolved over the time
that we've been playing it
and what it means in our lives,
and what it means to play it for people has changed
in a way that's just growing every day.
Me personally, it just means more and more
every time we do a show to share that with people.
So we've been working with Plus One for a few years now.
But just in April alone, we've raised 25k
for local food banks.
So every time we play a show in a city
the money that we raise from Plus One,
which is like a dollar added onto every ticket,
goes to food banks in that area.
We've also been working with them
to donate to Equality NC when we were in North Carolina,
to groups like Appalachian Outreach,
and Tennessee Equality Project,
both advocacy groups
and groups that are more geared towards
care and outreach and that type of thing for LGBTQ+ groups.
We live in Tennessee, which is kind of a middling state
in terms of like the way LGBTQ+ folks are treated.
I mean, there's definitely some areas
that need a lot of work.
- It's important, 'cause kind of the narrative
that sometimes gets like pushed onto LGBTQ people
in our areas, like go to LA, go to New York,
get outta here, you know?
And it's like- - Right, right
and some folks can't do that.
- To stay at home and show the people, and the youths
that like you can be southern and queer and proud of both.
- It's okay to be who you are, yeah.
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♪ Well there's two sides ♪
♪ To my taillights and both don't work right ♪
♪ And there's a motel on the highway ♪
♪ 100 miles outside of Nashville ♪
♪ And I still don't know when I can come home ♪
♪ But I promised I would try so I might a coward ♪
♪ Well the first cut was the deepest ♪
♪ But it healed up whole ♪
♪ And the next one was a soft touch but I bled out below ♪
♪ We were a team ♪
♪ 'Til you're toxic ♪
♪ I mean you talk shit often ♪
♪ But once upon a time ♪
♪ We were in love ♪
♪ Well, there's to a sides to a fair fight ♪
♪ And you're the third man out ♪
♪ I was hopeful with a slow hand ♪
♪ And I got gunned down ♪
♪ Well you asked me if I could grow up ♪
♪ But I don't know why ♪
♪ For I don't know much, I'm a palm frond ♪
♪ Dying on a front porch ♪
♪ Well the first cut was the deepest ♪
♪ But it healed up whole ♪
♪ And the last one was a clean hit ♪
♪ But I bled out below ♪
♪ We were a team ♪
♪ 'Til you're toxic ♪
♪ I mean you talk shit often ♪
♪ But once upon a time ♪
♪ We were in love ♪
♪ No, there's two lanes on a highway ♪
♪ And I passed you by ♪
♪ Thought about calling ♪
♪ But I deleted your number and we both know why ♪
♪ Truth is when I met you ♪
♪ Well, you know you made me cry ♪
♪ And I knew you for a second ♪
♪ You were gone in flashing lights ♪
♪ But since I had one, lost one ♪
♪ Well, at least I said goodbye ♪
♪ What's done is done ♪
♪ It's not enough to describe ♪
♪ When I met you I regret you ♪
♪ Every night's been the longest ride ♪
♪ I let you stay, admire that song of mine ♪
♪ You like when I sing songs about us ♪
♪ Well, you like when I sing our songs about us in the rain ♪
♪ I exorcise us, baby, ♪
♪ I'm working out the pain ♪
♪ Well, I knew you had a heart ♪
♪ But, God, I knew just how you were ♪
♪ If I'd have known you I'd have cloned you ♪
♪ Just to see what hurt ♪
♪ Well, there's two sides to a timeline ♪
♪ And they all have got the same arc ♪
♪ When I'm next to you ♪
♪ I can wave to you ♪
♪ Because we're miles apart ♪
♪ Well you wrote me 'bout you changed things ♪
♪ But, baby, you know me ♪
♪ I don't read a damn thing ♪
♪ Don't ever read a dame thing ♪
♪ Well, the first cut was the deepest ♪
♪ But it healed up whole ♪
♪ And the last one was a clean hit ♪
♪ But I bled out below ♪
♪ We were a team ♪
♪ 'Til you're toxic ♪
♪ I mean you talk shit often ♪
♪ But once upon a time ♪
♪ We were in love ♪
♪ No, there's two lanes on a highway ♪
♪ And I passed you by ♪
♪ Thought about calling ♪
♪ But I deleted your number and we both know why ♪