“We played at Monsoons the first time we played in Mobile. There were eight people there and owner Noell Broughton had to drag them in off the street. Noell gave us a chance. That was a weird show and he gave us about 25 Jager shots apiece. We stayed up until the sun rose. We tell everyone our roots are in Birmingham. That is where we met and Alabama is important to us. We moved to Nashville after high school, but Birmingham is where we started playing out. Our story centers around I-65. Birmingham has changed significantly since we were there and it is now a music-loving town. People even go to shows to see smaller acts and a lot of bands go through. Alabama Shakes and St. Paul and the Broken Bones are elevating Alabama culture and everything else is coming together as a higher taste, including food and residences.”