I think we realized this is a good time now because people really do want to hear some realistic songs, something that has some substance to it.
We get a lot of the new songs in, but we play a lot of the old classics and even some stuff that people don't expect,
I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the radio.
I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach.
Most relationships where two people have the same motivation, needs, desires and requirements... there's usually a butting of heads at one point.
Americana Music is about all sorts of different music. It's very free and open: a world where people just like authentic music.
We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves.
Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix.
When albums gave way to CDs, people re-discovered their collection through their CDs.
I couldn't begin to name names... in general I have found racers to be some of the most competitive people on the planet... and some of the nicest as well.
I may just keep releasing singles 'til I run out of music, which is kind of cool in a way - as long as people don't go, 'Oh my God, not another one!'
This music is like an old friend, one for whom you will always feel a kinship and closeness. When people hear this recording they will understand more clearly the roots of our original songs and perhaps have a bit more insight into where they really came from.
There isn't one album that says 'Hall & Oates.' It's always 'Daryl Hall and John Oates.' From the very beginning. People never note that. The idea of 'Hall & Oates,' this two-headed monster, this thing, is not anything we've ever wanted or liked.
At some point in their career, most people do an album of great hits of other performers - a tribute album that shows their influences.
Back in the early '90s, I started going to Nashville to do a lot of co-writes. One of the first people I met there was Keith Follese. Keith and his wife Adrienne are both songwriters, and we wrote some songs together.