Even going out and biking or running and really clears our minds and helps us. But don't misunderstand me, we love doing what we have been blessed with. We walk around with an entourage of personalities, but we learned early on that we all have to put our egos on the shelf in order to make this work. The taste of Listen Closely is evidently diverse from their debut, but although more people helped develop this new project, it has retained the Smalltown Poets' established flavor. The vocals will tie you back to their first album, but the quality raises the bar up another notch.
Success can breed many things, and it can come in many forms.
One man's success is another man's failure, but when the Lord directs our paths, many amazing things can and will happen. He was born in Puerto Rico and moved to Atlanta, GA, where he was raised. He attended Greenville College in Illinois, where he got to know the guys from Jars of Clay. He moved to Nashville after he graduated, and met the guys who would eventually become Smalltown Poets through mutual friends. If you gave Miguel a chance to live out a fantasy of his, you'd find him standing on a pitcher's mound in the seventh game of the World Series trying to close out the game for the victory.