We're recording with Jason Boland. The stragglers aren't here, but Jason Boland is.

I was going to ask you real quick about the band name. Did you bring that up right before

we started by like the band names and then some guys have it and then some guys don't or some

guys get rid of it. Yeah, I was just in the Texas Red Bird scene in general. A lot of guys kind

of started with the band name, Cody Johnson, Casey Donahue, and then kind of dropped it as a years

go by, but I feel like you've held on to it for a long time. Yeah, I think when we started out,

it was, we wanted it just to be a band. In fact, we talked about it as calling ourselves the

stragglers and because I had started playing acoustic around a few different places, they just said,

you know, for now we'll just go with this and you know how life is, man, it's always for now,

we're going to go with this and that's what it ends up being. But I always wanted it to be a band

and I always think that if you're the type of outfit that you know writes most of your music or has,

you know, people from within your organization or people you know, so it keeps a consistent

vibe of your material and you record with most of those people, even if it's still some people kind

of out right outside, but you always end up working with all the same folks. I think that

that creates something that we've always gone forward and it's got us where we're going and

it always, it always made sure it freed up the other people involved with it to have their voice,

play their cellos, I don't tell them what's always to play, I don't tell them what, you know,

we go for different vibes and everybody will take this around a certain way, but we always

approached it that everybody got to put in their two cents as much as we could, you know. I think

it always helped people live together and it helped the songs also fall throughout live performances

because really when you when you think about any song, go back and like stuff off of like

Hockey Tunk Heroes or some old Murl stuff, it's it's real what we would call today sparsely produce.

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