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Hey Jack?
Jack, will you come put on a record?
Yep.
You want Glen Campbell or more like Willie Nelson stuff?
I don't care.
Alright, Glen Campbell it is.
Okay.
Breakfast is... my jam.
I... I don't know. When we're out here it's too hard to get...
go anywhere to get food.
It's actually hard to leave this house too. It's amazing,
It's kind of our base camp.
I always cook breakfast.
It's important.
What'd I tell you? Jack is gonna play his own music all morning.
'Cause that's what he likes to hear first thing in the morning
is his self.
That's funny.
Because...
we all know what we're supposed to do on this earth.
And we're doing it.
And sometimes we get to do it together.
Actually whether anybody hears what we do or not.
You do.
We hear ourselves,
and we love You and thank You for everything. Amen.
You can get out like that. It would be cool. Yeah.
These songs mean too much to us. They're our life.
Jack and Jon and I listened and listened
to all the ones we had done.
Like fifteen songs over five years.
We thought...
what's gonna happen to these if we don't just put them out?
All these songs speak to all of our lives.
And we sort of just...
write down in our journal and put it on tape.
And that's what we are doing here.
It's scary, it's risky, it's very, very vulnerable.
To not have any fixes, to not have any production.
To just let the wind blow, and the birds and the cows...
and kind of let it be.
They should be heard.
They're really great songs. And they're really honest.
I think a lot of people spend,
you know, years and years writing songs that
just go by the wayside.
Or kind of get lost in a demo land, or...
You know? Or are archived somewhere.
And I thought
why not just put out these song in the rawest form we could,
'cause that's where they started.
We don't know what we're doing,
but we know we're supposed to do it.
You're usually trying to write
to get on a record.
You know... trying to get the hit.
See if you can get something on the radio.
Like, there's all the business goals of that.
And we left all that behind.
Everything doesn't have to be a business decision.
I miss music. I miss campfire music.
And we're making music around a camp fire,
and if we can't do that in real life,
then let's give people the closest thing to it.
which is... here's how it sounds.
I hope sit around their fire
and pretend we're there, we want to be there.
And we want people to be around our fire.
And so...
putting out something really raw and
and letting art lead, instead of business. For a minute.
You know, we all hope this record does amazing things,
but we didn't do it for that reason.
We wrote these songs for us.
And now it's time to share them with everybody else.
It's like zipping into another kinda existence of like
every time I write with them, I have to come out of it.
and go okay... back to the...
hmmm... back to the real world.
Well you know too, there's a little bit of like...
there's the freedom of getting to write songs for each other.
Yeah! Exactly.
And it's funny to me, 'cause one person will start singing one
And then we'll be like, "No, you sing that."
Because it just... they show themselves.
Like you know... like hearing Jack do "Anchor,"
it's the most heart wrenching thing.
I said it twice last night, maybe three times.
But man...this is heaven on earth.
It really is, it is man. It is to me anyway and us.
So, I remember driving,
through El Paso in the middle of the night on a tour bus.
Disappeared into the dark on I-10.
I had no idea what was out there.
Didn't know there were mountains... desert.
Just no idea.
And then years later I was looking on a map.
I saw all these little towns out there.
Towns I'd never heard of... and a funny little
town called Marfa.
So I decided to take a road trip and go see what was out here.
When I got out here...
I couldn't believe it,
my mind was blown at how beautiful and vast
and desolate and interesting the landscape was.
I felt like I had been here before.
...and I felt like I belonged out here.
And I knew when it was time for us to run away.
or run to somewhere, we ran to Marfa.
I look back and I think... I had no idea
what I drove past
in the middle of the night,
how important that place would end up being for
all three of us.
I met Jon...
when I was nineteen,
we were at the same label and I remember hearing him play.
He's special... Not only his presence as a person, but
Just meeting him,
you're like, "oh what a great guy, what a cool person."
Then he picks up a guitar, and his mouth to sing...
and it's like...
You transport into some other time. He's...
just a beast of a writer, and a musician
and has so much history in country music.
Jack and Jon are absolute opposites as people
but somehow we have this little triangle of...
creative energy and love for each other
and respect for each other, and it works.
But Jon, you know, he's our rock. He's our musical rock.
You know I've been really, really blessed to have...
Miranda in my world. She's family.
We were doing radio things together.
Radio shows and, listener appreciation things.
So we were kind of in the trenches together.
There's a camaraderie that comes with that
It was us and about four or five other artists,
that were out there banging it out
and trying to make something happen.
Obviously it worked for her, and didn't work for me.
But uhhh...
She was... I just fell in love with her
and we've been friends ever since.
All three of us,
we're overly confident and overly insecure,
at all different times.
And our insecurities come out differently.
And that's where mine comes out. At different times...
That's where we help each other, but something about Marfa...
Mm-hmm.
...gave us enough confidence to...
walk into it together and not be insecure about it.
At all. Yeah.
It's so true.
We just walked into the damn sunset together and go,
we're not gonna self doubt, we're not gonna...
worry about who's song's great. Who's career is doing what.
What single? What relationship.
Where we are in our life. We just...
write songs together.
Oh, right off the top.
Alright.
Hello, little lady.
Look like you could need a biscuit.
Bye y'all. Something like that.
That one's fun. Exactly like that.
Just like that.
I need to go make a phone call.
Was that good enough?
Do it again. Yeah.
You wanna do it again? Yeah!
A'right.
One...two... three... four.
A penny?...
Shining like a spoke.
Shining like a penny.
Shining like a penny on a brand new El Dorado.
Okay. Cool, Cool.
That's pretty good. I like that.
Oh it's a Texas thing, you wouldn't understand it.
We used to put pennies on our El Dorados.
But they had to be, the shinier the better.
Let's start it again.
Okay.
Take a bow, Geraldene.
That was a good one. That's fun.
So fun.
G-G-G-Geraldene...
G-G-Geraldene. I know it's sad...
...but it really happened. That was fun.
You like that one? That was good.
Spencer likes it.
There's magic here. There's magic in the sky.
There's magic in the dirt.
There's magic in the noises and the breeze.
This house is magical, the mountains.
And I don't know, I can't really explain why, but...
You just pick up a guitar and you want to write songs.
I've never been to a place that brought so many songs
to me so quickly.
Something about these big skies down here,
Music is made in the spaces.
And in the silence. And uh...
There's plenty of that down here.
And you kind of, you have the ability down here to wonder.
I think you just,
let your guard down out here, a little bit. I think you...
feel... safe.
Give us a kick! Gimme a kick! Gimme a kick!
You're free to be you, and
sort of take a deep breath
and sit and just listen to the wind.
Once everything that's in your life, that bogs you down,
leaves for a second
and you're a song writer, then you finally go... oh
I might be hearing some melodies,
I might be hearing some words.
It's rare that we slow down enough
to give it space and time.
Knowing who you are and what you want
is amazing to watch.
Well, you're an artist, like a real artist.
And we also knew what a great song writer you are.
And I remember he and I kinda...
in cahoots behind your back... were like,
Hey man, let's try to get her to write a Kristofferson record.
Remember? And we went, and we did.
Let's go deep. Let's go deep as we can.
We went really deep. It's deep.
It was a trip to write those songs.
We went all the way there. It was...
That first trip was
Let's see, I have it down.
It was July 2015. Yeah.
July 15, 2015 I think, and
We wrote "Anchor" "Amazing Grace"
A heart that's broken "Breaking a Heart" and...
"Tin Man"
"The Winds Just Gonna Blow"
...and Tin Man.
and Tin man. That's from that whole...
Man.
And also, we showed up...
What I think is beautiful about it, is
y'all both met me where I was and...
We used the songs, to like, dig out of it.
Yeah.
That's what we're suppose to do.
It was therapy... It was.
...for all of us.
I mean, we all went deep.
We all opened our heart and go
let's bleed out here.
And if you want to hear music
that makes you go, oh...
I know what it feels like to get divorced
I know what it feels like to almost get divorced.
I know what it feels like to have...
all these things that were talking about in these songs
That's what this place is, you come out here and you go
You got nothing else to lean on, man.
You got sky, and desert and emotion.
Literally bawling, that was so beautiful.
Man. Unbelievable,
Ahh... Cheers buddy. That was a good one.
Something like that's the whole reason for all of this...
This is such a bitch, you know?
Whew.
Oh come on, you crazy.
Ahh come on now.
You sure do play some pretty pretty chords.
Why thank ya, neighbor.
Look at that sky. Can you even believe it?
"We'll Always Have the Blues" is one that speaks to me.
You know it's one of those things, it's about
Two people that don't do anything wrong.
They just kind of have a night where they connect
at a blues bar.
Over the blues...
and when they leave, they say, "We can't have each other."
But it was a memorable evening and we'll always have the blues.
And to me there's something so...
honest, and innocent. I think that's a good one.
Don't do it.
My phone...
You're like a walking tornado.
I know. I knocked over two Topo Chicos in there.
By the way, I have a line.
I'm the worst of, I'm the worst of both worlds
but the best you can do.
There you go!
One of the things I really love about her,
is her ability to be vulnerable.
She shows you everything, when you listen to her songs...
listen to her records, listen to her words.
But you know, I never take for granted
the depth of Miranda's talent.
Just watching Miranda from the sidelines...
And hearing her amazing voice and her incredible songwriting.
You know, her stage presence, her charisma.
She's a total star. But she's also a real artist.
She takes chances, and not afraid to reinvent herself.
You know when you have that kind of talent and that artistry
together. That's lightning in a bottle.
That's legend. That's hall of fame.
She just inspires the hell out of me.
That's how we do it.
This is ridiculous.
The sun comes shining through.
Jack's, my hero. I mean I grew up
watching Jack play around Texas since I was 15.
The way he commands the stage. The way he commands a room.
He walks in and there's a presence.
Underneath all of that
tough exterior, this...
"I'm big strong... Songwriter Jack"
that's what I fell in love with as a kid.
you know, as I've gotten to know him over the years
and become his friend. He's...
very kind and...
he's a cheerleader for everybody else, I mean
He's the first one to sit here and lift me and Jon up
and believe in our ideas and believe in our music.
You know, they say, "don't meet your heroes," but...
not only have I met one, I've gotten really close with one.
And then when I started seeing Jack pop up
and I saw him play live and I was like...
He just blew my socks off, you know.
And I just thought he was a cool dude.
We met him at a gig, I met him at Gruene Hall,
we played a gig together at Gruene Hall.
And uh... and that's kinda where we...
You know how when you just meet somebody, it's like
You feel like you've known them your whole life?
We were always, we'd sit up and drink
whiskey 'til way late, like we do down here.
And talk about,
these records we loved and the records we grew-up on.
And like, people don't make records like that anymore,
they don't go for the live thing anymore.
Everything's so pristine and perfect.
They don't just, throw a mic up see what happens, and so...
we finally did it.
It's that feeling of,
What is this and is it gonna work?
And then also the resolve of,
I don't care if it works, it's working for me.
Yeah.
If it's working for us, it's gonna work for somebody.
Somebody needs to feel it and hear it,
somebody needs to see that sunset.
By the time we're done out there,
I bet we'll figure out...
something that we would be interested in
showing other people.
And saying this is part of who I am.
Yeah. It's cool.
And now I call him one of my closest friends and
we fight, we all fight like brothers and sisters
when we're together but
I think that's what creates the, the
vulnerability and the confidence in each other
it's 'cause we get really raw and real with each other
no one's afraid to tell each other the truth.
And then in turn, that truth becomes our songs.
Beautiful.
Nailed it.
I admire Miranda.
And watching her go about her business the way she does
is phenomenal to see.
She makes all these huge career changing decisions
Based on principle and integrity.
And heart, period.
Everything she does has conviction
And she's willing to fight for what's right for her.
It's inspiring to me and it's humbling.
She's one of the greats, she's a hall of famer.
Nobody has to say that it's just the truth.
I'm just inspired to be around Jon and Miranda
When I first met Randy, JR Jon Randal, Jon Randal Stewart
Whatever you want to call him.
I was draw to his music and his playing
and wanted to get to know this bad ass Texan
Ever since that time, we've become best friends.
We've worked together, made records together.
He's an amazing song writer.
His guitar playing is off the charts.
Plus, he's just, he's my people.
Y'all ready?
What is it? I got it, I got it...
What is it? I got it... I got it...
I got it. Wait a minute.
No, Billy Bob's Texas.
What would we do without Kevin?
Solo.
It's a song I actually haven't ever been able to
get all the way through.
I haven't even learned it well enough, and I think
subconsciously it's hard to sing
because it's a little too real.
But that's why you got friends that are songwriters,
that are like... "Sing it again!"
'till you get it.
Then a horn solo... Horn solo.
Whoo!
We're goin' this, headin' this way!
I need to get out of here.
You talk about Marfa all the time.
Let's go see Jack, he's playing in Midland.
And let's just get it. let's just go write.
And even if we didn't write
we were still just going to hang out and enjoy the company
but when we got here we knew that there was magic in the air
it was like we had to write.
You know sometimes when you're hanging out with friends
and everything sounds like a song.
Yeah. It's true.
And in real life.
which this isn't.
it's not real life here?
No.
In real life,
that's a zone you have to find.
Yeah.
And you search for it. And you can't get the...
It's like mistress or a muse.
You can't want it to happen too much
or else you'll never get it.
Here, it's the opposite.
You have to find a way out of writing.
We have to find a way go...
whatever we say is not a new song idea.
...can we please?