Instead, they were just recreating music that had already been written and recorded. We've taken our varied influences and allowed our music to evolve without pigeonholing ourselves. In turn, people are getting a fresh new sound. We're not trying to be anything other than great musicians and even better songwriters. I think our live show is an experience - not one long sound.
People enjoy listening to an Irish jam that flows into a bluegrass-style tune.
We might introduce a singer-songwriter style offering, and then turn right around and play a song with extended guitar and trumpet solos. In other words, we're not catering to one particular audience. As a result, our crowds are usually a mix of all ages and lovers of all different types of music. Will seems to pick up the mandolin on about 80 percent of the songs and the lap steel around 20 percent of the time. Without it, the songs would assume a totally different texture.