Edited sentence: According to Rolling Stone magazine, "While Leon preached at churches and tent revivals throughout the Deep South, the boys attended services and were occasionally enlisted to bang on some drums.Except for a five-year stretch when they settled in Jackson, Tennessee, the Followills spent their childhoods driving through the South in a purple 1988 Oldsmobile, decamping for a week or two wherever Leon was scheduled to preach.Jared and Caleb were born in Tennessee, while Nathan and Matthew were born in Oklahoma.The group's name is derived from Nathan, Caleb, and Jared's father and grandfather, who were both named Leon.The three brothers spent much of their youth traveling around  the South with their father, Ivan "Leon" Followill, a traveling Pentecostal Church preacher and their mother, Betty-Ann, who taught them when they were not in school.They were home-schooled or enrolled in small parochial schools