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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Lady Antebellum

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Lady Antebellum, the trio of Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood, is famous for its pitch-perfect harmony, which began when they met in a Nashville bar 12 years ago. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist got together with the band to talk about that first meeting, the Grammy-winning song that changed their career, and how they manage to stick together after all these years. Plus the band took Willie on a tour of their rehearsal space as they get ready to head out on the “Summer Plays On” tour with Darius Rucker.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist back with you for another edition of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

0:06.1

Thanks so much for clicking and listening along with us this week.

0:09.0

My guests are Hillary Scott, Charles Kelly and David Haywood together.

0:13.0

They make up the country band Lady Antebellum or Lady A is their fans call them.

0:18.1

I call them a country band and they are that but they're bigger than that.

0:20.9

They're a crossover band.

0:22.0

They're hit.

0:22.8

Need you now when all the way to number two in 2010 on the Billboard Hot 100.

0:28.3

That made them pop stars, one of them five Grammys off that album album went platinum.

0:34.2

And the rest is music history.

0:36.2

They're now back out on tour going out this week with Darius Rucker and the summer plays on tour.

0:42.3

They invited me down to Nashville.

0:43.7

It was cool.

0:44.2

As they got ready in the final days in preparation for the tour.

0:47.3

We sat down here the first part of our interview and then they we moved into the rehearsal space,

0:52.4

which was a giant airplane hanger size space where they set up the full rig for the show.

0:58.0

That's going to be on tour through arenas and theaters and amphitheaters across the country.

1:02.9

The big stage, the video monitor, all the lighting, everything you'd see at a concert was set up in this big room.

1:08.7

A hot night in Nashville with no air conditioning.

1:12.2

So they have these giant industrial size bigger than Beyonce fans.

1:16.2

That's how big blowing in there as they ran through a set and they gave us about three songs to listen to.

1:22.1

So I think you'll like these guys.

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