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taking the time just to stay
Drina and I were playing music and
singing together and we got married
and we always had music in our house and
so when the kids were born they were
always hearing music and they were
singing almost from the time they could
speak and singing harmonies with each
other without knowing what they were and
so if one person started singing a song
the others would sing harmonies well and
I think over the time they everybody
just learned to develop their own lead
voice and everybody learned how to sing
all the other harmonies it's just a very
organic development
keep our babysitting
when I wear time in love one night my my
son who's 19 months old he woke up in
the middle of the night like 1:30 in the
morning he wouldn't go back to sleep and
so I sat in the living room and was
trying to get him to go back to sleep
and then I couldn't go back to sleep and
just kind of started writing and it was
one of those songs that just came out
all at once on the paper and I showed it
to Kyle the next day and he's like I
would make such a cool bluegrass song so
I was trying to figure out a way to
incorporate a lot of the higher more
piercing female harmonies into a pretty
standard hard-driving bluegrass song
we came into this project we had a lot
of awesome material we finally narrowed
it down to twelve great songs and
decided at the last minute that we would
switch out one of our tunes and try to
cover the cup song we just thought it
would be really cool to try to bluegrass
that song and put our version of it on
the album and it's it's super cool I
think it turned out to be my favorite
song on the album
I got my ticket for the long way round
two bottle whiskey for the way and I
sure would like some sweet company and
I'm leaving tomorrow what do you say
when I'm gone when I'm having Kenny
Malone on the cup song was I mean he was
the most perfect fit for that song one
of my nephew's walked up to him and it's
like Kenny do you play the drums and he
goes oh no I play the world I got my
ticket for the long way
it's got mountains it's got rivers it's
got sights to give you shivers when I
found out that I won the IVM a momentum
award for female vocalist of the year I
was shocked because I didn't know that I
was even nominated for it until yeah
after I found out that I won the award
and yeah I wasn't expecting it at all it
was a huge surprise and it was so
exciting like it was the first award
I've ever won at all so so that and of
itself was really great but having it
come from IBMA it was really exciting
planes die have we
flying cars that have we
if I'm ever gonna have a hard ever be
blue
I gotta have you
what inspires me most as a singer is the
random music choices that I listen to I
listen to Pandora stations of artists
that I don't even know the name of it's
kind of taking me out of that whole
straight bluegrass genre voice vote
vocally and into a kind of my own thing
they just go together you and me I can't
see mine without the other
five years ago we were playing at Silver
Dollar City and this guy was playing in
another band and he and Melissa got a
little interested in each other and
before long he asked to marry my
daughter and that's Kyle and he's been
with us for about six years now they've
been married five years and he just
totally changed the band he was the most
wonderful addition ever
he brought true bluegrass into what we
were doing was just a phenomenal banjo
player and multi-instrumentalist as well
one thing I thought about when I met
that Bank Astor's was a piece I learned
from Sammy Schuyler from an
instructional video he said that he
listened to a Tony rice album that
didn't have any banjo on it and he just
played along and put his own banjo in
there and that was kind of how he
learned to play and so when I joined the
banking stirs they never had a banjo
player and so it was that similar
situation for me but in the full-time
band aspect
we really are surprised at how far the
music has come we it's just been one
surprise after another and one blessing
after another and we just are really
enjoying the ride
in through steps bed