Can you talk to us more about your single “Devil” and winning the American Songwriter award?
Sure. It’s been a while at this point – about 4 years now. That song is from our first record. Devil was one of the first songs Liz and I wrote together. (We were a duo for a short time before Dave joined). We had a few songwriting sessions and Devil was among the first 3 or 4 songs we came up with. Liz was always the real vocalist and she came up with those intricate intro parts. I remember working on that a lot, personally. It was challenging for me but worth it. When Dave joined the group and we added his vocal parts, and he added the slide guitar, it really came together. When we entered the contest, I don’t think any of us expected to win. Well I know we didn’t. I had entered into a handful of things with nothing really to show for it. When we advanced, that was cool enough. Then we won and it was quite a shock, in a very good way.
Did any event in particular inspire you to write this song?
I mean, not really one event in particular. It’s just kind of about making decisions that you know aren’t quite right……READ MORE