#soulscript

What are your goals for the rest of the year?

C.W. - To continue to write and record when and where I can… and hopefully get to travel on vacation; somewhere before year’s end.  

T.B. - To avoid the corona virus, finish a novel that I recently started and continue working on our next album.

Which new bands/artists are you into right now?

C.W. - New music that I’m into right now:   Larkin Poe, Soccer Mommy and Waxahatchee as of late. I am, alas, a sucker for retro rock & roots music.

T.B. - Marcus King, Khruangbin & Leon Bridges, and The Revivalist.

What was the band or artist that got you into music or inspired you to be a musician?

C.W. - Led Zeppelin. They could play anything.

T.B. - Scott Allan Stagg and Brian Nolan, two musicians from different bands, that played in a local bar in Lafayette, Louisiana, where I worked during college were pivotal in my first few years of writing and playing music.  The Beatles, America, and Tom Petty.

How best do you write; in a jam room or a studio?

C.W. - I write best in a studio setting. You show up with your homework done… some noteworthy formative ideas; then you audition them & record your best bits. Tweak as you go. I do think getting other people involved in your writing process is the only way to consistently coax out new ideas.

T.B.  - I enjoy writing with Chris and find that it strengthens the song.   However, most of my song ideas or lyrics seem to come to me when I’m by myself thinking or daydreaming about something. I often only have a few lines or a verse that come to me in that moment.  Over the years, I have saved these ideas in a book for reference when I’m in the studio, working on that next song.

What was your wildest show so far, and why?

C.W. – Watching the boats on Lake Pontchartrain beach enjoy the music, while we played the main stage at The Mandeville Seafood Festival in 2010 to an attentive crowd of several hundred.

T.B. - In 2007, we opened for Christian Serpas and Ghost Town at Carrollton Station in New Orleans. About halfway into our set, the crowd was getting kind of rowdy.  Just as I stepped to the mic for my next harmony, a pair of panties, thrown from the crowd, landed perfectly on the end of my SM57 mic.  

Where is the furthest across the globe you’ve played so far?

C.W. - Alas, we haven’t left the deep South… yet!

Given the current circumstances, what are you doing to keep the band moving forward?