You recorded ‘I Did’ around a solitary microphone, which is a very different production-style. We took two, maybe three weeks, in a band room and after that we were ready to cut. We don’t really make an album by starting with a laptop and writing the album in a room, it starts with instruments on. It’s different for us because we all play instruments. After that, we had an album of what the album was going to look like. Did you have a vision going into the studio of what you wanted that record to look like?Īustin: So we got into a band room for two weeks. Six instrumentalists, six vocalists and just adding stacked harmonies, it’s a little bit different but that lane hadn’t been filled yet. We’d all had a similar vision of being in a contemporary music band, but also having elements of Crosby Stills Nash and Young, having that idea of a six person band.

Was it a natural thing coming to that label or was it a hard decision?Ĭhad: No, I think we wanted to create our own lane. I know you’ve been given the country label, but I feel like there are so many more different elements in your music. You watch musicians down there, who can just play things off the cuff and just do it. Broadway is really impressive, it’s really cool. I think it got to the point where I knew over 200 songs, which is just incredible considering you have to play them on the spot. You’ll have absolutely no idea what a song is, so you’d have to think on your feet.Įventually, after about six months of playing down there, I managed to learn so many songs. You’ll be playing and they will turn around and shout out a song. Honestly, I’ve never been thrown in the deep-end more, down there they take requests for songs. I just started cutting my teeth down in Broadway, playing Tootsie’s and Honky-Tonk Broadway and things like that. Jordan: Yeah, so my dad actually mentioned to me that I should take a trip over to Nashville and I did and then I ended up moving there. I feel like King Calaway was a good fit.Īustin: I was in LA as a session bass player, so when I actually heard about this Nashville thing and was like ‘hey, maybe I’ll move to Nashville.’ Being in such a harmony-based group was really exciting, the prospect of doing that.Ĭhris: I was in a rock band, Chad was in a rock band… I feel like we were all looking for something more, something different. Moving into this was really cool, because I’d grown up with bands like Simon & Garfunkel, The Eagles. We really looked up to Kings of Leon and Coldplay and those sort of bands. Simon: I was coming to the end of a band with my two older brothers, where we played… We were an anthemic-ish pop band. We really got to know each other better.Īnd what were all your musical backgrounds like, and what stage in your musical journeys were you at at the time? Once we started playing together, I feel like it was a more intimate setting. We got together and played ‘Love The One You’re With’ and it really felt like a deeper connection than just talking. I mean six guys from different parts of the world, probably doesn’t sound organic when you put them in a room but I feel like the music really connected us. Did it all happen very organically coming together in the writing room and the studio, or was it a process of learning each other and learning what works?Īustin: It was a process for sure, but I think it felt really organic. I guess that must have been a big transition, firstly to become a band and then to move there. I was living in Boston at the time, going to school up there, LA, Ohio. Were you all living in Nashville at the time?Ĭhad: A couple of us were – Jordan had moved there from Scotland, and then Chris is from there originally.

But no, to answer your question, did we expect to be here? I think we all had hopes to be doing well, but it’s really cool, like this European run we’ve just had has been so fun. Simon: Oh yeah, I was at the Country Music Hall of Fame like a real tourist. It’s been a bit of a whirlwind, can you even think back to that first meeting? Did you think that in less than two years you would be where you are now?Ĭaleb: One of my first memories, I remember our first hang, I was picking up Simon who was at the Country Music Museum. It’s been two years since you guys came together as a band.

It went really well, it was a lot of fun – first C2C. We interview the boys from King Calaway about the success of their debut album ‘ Rivers‘ and what’s up next.

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