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TSH: Having made up characters in your mind for your songs and not taking credit for being the person in your songs, what sort of directness do you feel this gives to your overall musical outlook?

Rayland: I sat in my room and wrote the lyrics down and willed the song into form, but for the other stuff you mention, I don’t know where the impulse came from to write the song. I like to imagine that a song lives on a mysterious ghost train chugging along in another dimension, with arms and legs and a crazy head dress on, and when the human mind gets an impulse to write about something, the ghost train gets sucked into a portal and enters the mind of the writer. The imagination and song wrestle for a short while and then you get a song. I have trouble taking too much credit for such an event, in terms of my overall musical outlook and how that has affected it. I would say I stand my ground on the fact that I think this is what I should be doing with my time on earth - at least for now, so I will have a well-mannered, polite approach to music and existence.

TSH: What were the primary shifts with regards to instrumentation for ‘Imaginary Man’?

Rayland: We used a juno on a lot of the songs - it gave a nice aqueous underbelly to the album. Other than that there was nothing out of the ordinary, just drums, bass, guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin and all types of keys and vocals. The core group of people in the studio, however, were the shift - all great people and musicians.

TSH: Does singing with your utmost conviction give you a type of emotional release?

Rayland: Yeah, performing these songs feels good. Some people have pills and doctors to keep them sane; I have touring and the endless pursuit to perform the best live show I/we can night after night.

TSH: With a song like ‘Oh My Captain’, how did you go about structuring the song itself?

Rayland: I started writing this song six years ago when I was living in Israel, it made its way back to the shelf for a long time, but when we were recording the album we were one song short, we needed a mid tempo song with some heavy vibes. I pulled this one out of the book and wrote a few chorus lines for it, and there you have it. I had little faith in the end result - a few hours later ‘Oh My Captain’ was born.

TSH: With the subject matter of ‘Freaking Me Out’ entailing gaining and losing friends and learning how to love, does the song carry particular importance to you?

Rayland: This song I hope conveys a particular notion to everyone who hears it. It’s a song about getting hit in the head by life. Sometimes you wake up and question everything, from the colour of the walls in your bedroom to why you drive a broke-ass car, or why your life isn’t where you think it should be, or doing your friends wrong, or them doing you wrong, being too fat, too skinny, a good person, a bad decision maker, yada yada, I can go on all day...

TSH: Whilst sequencing the record was ‘Lady of the Desert’ the natural choice as the farewell song?

Rayland: Yes, it seemed to be the most appropriate song, given the lyrical content of each chorus repeating goodbye goodbye vibes. There was nowhere else to put the song.

TSH: Having a penchant for well-crafted melodies, what makes a good melody for you?

Rayland: It has to inspire one to dream, to float, to be shot out of a canon and into the clouds - alone with your thoughts and mental artistry.

TSH: Do you feel you are required to find a certain type of drive to stay creative?

Rayland: Nothing with artistic creation should be required. It should come from a want, a desire to make something, and in that regard I am always seeing life through a few lenses. I’m paying attention to the sounds and sights around me, storing them in my memory bank, feeding my imaginary man every day in hopes that what he spits back at me is something worthy of sharing with the worlds.

TSH: What’s been the most liberating aspect of your recent musical endeavours?

Rayland: I love touring. I love playing music with my buds. I love the adventures we get into whilst touring. I love the peace I feel whilst traveling down the road, or across the ocean, or up the mountain. I love the brotherhood. I love the audiences, and I have lately enjoyed seeing people singing along to some of the songs on the new album. I hear a few of the songs have made their way around the world and that is really fucking cool.

TSH: In what ways does touring continuously give you a unique perspective?

Rayland: Touring provides constant change - change of headspace, change of altitude, change of scenery, change of emotion, change of sleeping situations, change of smells, food and culture… I love this and it keeps my ADD brain on point.

TSH: How do you get around the moments of feeling restricted at times?

Rayland: I have a moment with myself and make sure my perception of the world is appropriate. I make sure that I keep reminding myself that for the most part most of these things happening around me are out of my control and to know what things I should be thinking about and occupying my mind with. I can shave it down to a couple things that need my focus and everything else I toss out the window for some other force or faction to handle. I keep it super simple all the time and remind myself that it’s all out of my hands for the most part… Just fall back into the wind and enjoy the ride!

TSH: What has piqued your interest most in regards to non-musical influences?

Rayland: I recently watched a documentary about scientology. L. Ron Hubbard seems like a strange beast of a man and the religion he created from the roots of a science fiction writers mind. I’m amazed by people like him. People who are genius, but their genius seems to be misplaced. There have been so many brilliant psychopaths who have changed the world for bad. I wonder what the world would have been like had they been on the good guys side; like the Jim Jones dude or Hitler - genius looney tunes who have an amazing ability to change your mind with their use of language. Keep in mind, I am not defending these people, when I say ‘amazed’ I mean that I am amazed in a 'holy shit how could that have happened’ way, not a ‘wow that guy is awesome’ kind of way.

TSH: How do you like to unwind during your downtime?

Rayland: I have a 1969 Plymouth Valiant that I enjoy driving out to the country. I also enjoy canoeing and fly fishing.

TSH: What is the most pleasing part in bringing your music to the masses?

Rayland: I think it would be the live show - when people come to the show when we are on tour. I love playing music every night and waking up the next day and doing it again. I enjoy the travel and everything else about touring. I laugh at myself sometimes because it’s all from the music - everything stems from the music. I was in Europe this summer because of music and we are going to Alaska this winter, also because of music. That’s incredible!

Rayland Baxter - “Yellow Eyes (Official Session Video))”