We wanted to make a record that was strictly song-oriented and wasn't attached to a bigger narrative. We almost had more of a list of what we didn't want than what we did want.
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a pretty good description of the things we've been writing about, the dualities of the day-to-day.Patterson Hood
It in no way denies the horrible things that happened in the South during the civil rights struggle, ... The KKK and church bombings - all of those things did happen, but at the same time there were people like my father making Aretha Franklin records, these southern white boys who made their living playing on some of the best soul records ever made.
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To me, it's an easy record to listen to. But it's not an easy-listening record,
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I'm not having to come home from tours and wait tables for the next three weeks to make ends meet. We're paying our bills, ... Unfortunately, we haven't gotten to the point where we can take any real time off.
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The record's not without its dark moments, but hopefully there's a little bit of a happy ending too,
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Cooley and I have been together for 20 years now. It hasn't exactly been an overnight success, ... We're the poster children for stubborn persistence.
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