American Misfit
“I think being in a rural place has let me feel like I don’t have to fit in with anything that is going on. I feel like I can write and do whatever I want, and no one expects anything from me.”
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“I think being in a rural place has let me feel like I don’t have to fit in with anything that is going on. I feel like I can write and do whatever I want, and no one expects anything from me.”
“There are some things that you can do, but now we’re at the part of human history where we really have to roll with the punches because some of the change we were fighting for, we lost the fight.”
“One of the other reasons was that the nature of the songs was also more country than rockabilly and, I guess, we were in a more laidback groove than we had been before.”
“Truly criminal what these art-capitalists and music-pimps have gone and done to the genre. Nevertheless, I’m out here banging on the old tune-box, trying to wake the dead.”
“I really enjoy being up on stage and it being loud and getting that feel of the guitar behind me and it feels like a jumbo jet with that force and power; that’s what I get excited about.”
“We’re always searching for a certain atmosphere and this one riff that keeps it all going. Not too harsh, and not too technical. Maybe like a machine that needs oil.”
“On any trip I take, whether it’s for business or personal reasons, I have some recording equipment with me, and this trip was no different.”
“It seems to be almost a necessity for us to reform. When we started writing new songs for the album, we had a faint idea of a direction we wanted to head in.”
“Country music has become hugely popular in the UK in recent years, so it is an exciting time.”
“Bedsit is a stark record, my starkest yet. It was recorded at a time when I was returned to the world of me, myself and I.”
“For this record, I wrote most of the songs while in rehab, so ideas of addiction and recovery were heavy on the mind.”
“With ‘Captivity’ we decided to throw away conventions and deliver the album we would want to hear ourselves.”