Nothing against Ricky. He's a hero to a lot of people, me included. He's an icon to a lot of us, too... Having Mark in there -- where you felt like you could talk and be red [a redneck] -- it freed us up a whole lot to sing and play the way we normally do on stage.
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That has kind of been our calling card. You know what we might sound like, but you don't know what we might try, and that is the way it has evolved.
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He's a bluegrass fanatic and loves acoustic music. He approached us, and it was a mutual thing. We did it through Ricky, and it worked out to be a great situation. We had a wonderful time in the studio. It was a mutual love affair with the music, and he brought us so many great songs.
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He is such a talented kid, and he is pure mountain, and you can't take that away from him. I think the project turned out wonderful, and it has been killer early. People all over the world are playing it.
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From there on, it's gotten a little sweeter every time we play.
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I was on stage singing with my dad when I was five years old.
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My favorite musician of all time is James Taylor. He is just the consummate musician.
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We'd always had his name in the back of our minds, if we could afford him.
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I think it comes down to the fact that we're just dumb enough to think we can have fun together playing on stage.
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It falls where it is. We've been accepted by gospel markets and jam band markets and different places that we never really tried to get. It still surprises me when somebody picks up a record that wouldn't normally buy a bluegrass record and says, 'That new record is awesome.' We didn't have that in mind when we cut it. But we'll take every one of 'em.
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