“We haven’t played a show this year. It is hell. We have been in writing mode, which is fun for a little bit, but then you start missing that instant gratification and feedback every night. By the time you wrap up writing you are chomping at the bit to get back out there.”

“We had to rehearse for this show to get it all back. It felt like we would forget the songs, but then they all came back. Oh, shit, I don’t know what chord is about to happen, but our hands know what to do anyway. Muscle memory.

“During sound check today it was a little strange to hear ourselves in the monitors just because we haven’t done it in so long. It will be fine. We will still be good.”

“We changed management and we have three babies being born in the band right now. It was the perfect time to shut down and let everyone have their moment and then hit it hard when the third album is finished. When we started this, we were young and raging in a band and soon there will be babies on the bus.

“Writing is super self-destructive. There is no formula.”

“His family has a cabin in the mountains of North Carolina and we went there to write. We try to go there once a record cycle. It helps us to get away from distractions and people can’t leave to mow their yards. It works. We wrote three or four songs there.”

“You record a record and it takes so long to come out that when it is released, we already feel like it was out forever. To everyone else it is brand new.”

“We are different people each time we make an album.”

“We had talked about playing a new song, but each new song changes so much and we aren’t ready yet.”

“If something went wrong on a new song, it would crush our spirits on stage. Let’s kill that song if we are going to mess it up live.”

“Is it scary the first time you play a song out?”

“Hell yes.”

“It is also exciting and gives you something new to dig into. There was one day we played ‘Left my Woman’ six times in one day between sound check, radio things and the show. We need new blood in the shows.”

“Our hardest time was the first record. We had the most press we have ever had. It kind of seems backward because we were driving ourselves and we lived off of three hours of sleep each night for two years.”

“We would do a show, drive for hours, then get up early and do a radio show.”

“Trying to sound good in the morning, no matter how hard you slept is a hard thing to do. It is hard to warm up.”

“The Wild Feathers have come a long way but we aren’t where we want to be. It is hard to be on the inside and see how it grows.”

“We want it to grow in places like Mobile and play in theaters like the one down the street. We want to keep being brothers. We don’t take anything for granted. You never feel like you arrive.”

“92 Zew was the first radio station to play our first single on the first album. They were our first add. I don’t remember the other ones after that, but we will always be thankful to the Zew.”

“We are so pumped that we finally get to play a show and that it is a festival in Mobile.”