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Kings of Leon Are Still Rocking Nashville

Rolling Stone All Access

Rolling Stone

Music, Music Commentary, Music Interviews

4.01.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Kings of Leon may be one of rock’s most global bands, but the group is forever tied to Nashville. This week, lead singer Caleb Followill joins us in the Nashville Now cabin to talk about the Kings’ surprise new EP, what it’s like to work with Zach Bryan, and what he thinks about all of those country covers of the band’s massive hit “Sex on Fire.” (Spoiler alert: Some make him cringe.) Caleb also takes us back in time to a much different Nashville, where he and his brothers tried to shop their songs on Music Row the old-fashioned way: Knocking on doors. Join us on a very royal episode of Nashville Now! Country is Here…Nashville is Now. Check out our ⁠Hear Now⁠ playlist on Spotify, updated weekly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Check one, two.

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All right.

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We're rolling.

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Hey everybody. I'm Joseph Hudak, Senior Music Editor at Rolling Stone.

0:10.0

I want to welcome you to Rolling Stones, Nashville Now.

0:14.0

It's a new episode this week with our very special guest, Caleb Falawil from Kings of Leon. Yes, they are not a country music band,

0:23.3

but boy, the Kings of Leon have been just entwined and enmeshed with the fabric of Nashville

0:29.9

since they really got started back in Mount Juliet way back in the day. So Caleb's going to come in

0:36.2

and talk to us about their surprise new EP,

0:39.7

EP number two. We're going to talk to him about Nashville and how the city has changed and what he

0:46.6

thinks of all these different country artists who have covered their classic hit, Sex on Fire.

0:52.2

I want to talk about one of my favorite nights in Nashville.

0:56.0

In doing this podcast, I kind of always wanted to kind of give you all a glimpse of things

1:01.4

that you can check out if you're ever in town that are kind of off the beaten path that aren't

1:06.4

the same old touristy thing on Broadway or, you know, the big name shows, I guess.

1:13.6

And that tease up the greasy chicken review.

1:18.2

It is a collective of musicians led by singer-songwriter and just ace guitarist Matthew Slahedka. They play the second Tuesday of every month at a place

1:32.6

here called the Eastside Bowl. It's a bowling alley just on the East Nashville Madison border.

1:38.3

And they have a very cool club, tiny, small, intimate room in the front. Right when you walk in,

1:43.9

it's called the 58.

1:45.5

So you can check out Matthew Sleheka and Greasy Chicken Review

1:49.4

if you happen to be in town on the second Tuesday of every month.

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