![]() Theirs was a world steeped in the sounds of religious and gospel music, and also one where rock and roll was strictly off limits.įast-forward some years later, to when the brothers, following their parents’ divorce, were living with BettyAnn in Nashville. It begins with Caleb, Nathan and Jared spending much of their childhoods in the back seat of a 1988 purple Oldsmobile, traveling the South with their United Pentecostal preacher father, Ivan Leon Followill, and being home-schooled by their mother, BettyAnn. Their tale is an oft-told one, and rightfully so. One aspect of the band that is rather incredible is the Kings’ backstory. “Yeah, right,” Caleb interrupts, with a hearty laugh. So maybe there’s always been a little thing where we’ve tried to not get too incredible at our instruments…” ![]() “But truthfully, for us it’s always been about coming up with a good tune rather than trying to make it all about the guitar part. “We’re not really big guitar guys,” Matthew says. ![]() ![]() All of which indicates that, while Caleb and Matthew might not be burning exotic scalar runs and speedy sweep arpeggios across their fretboards, they’ve apparently mastered a considerably more difficult and elusive technique-the art of writing a powerful song.
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