Videos by American Songwriter
ARTIST: The Breedlove Brothers
SONG: “Interstate Blues”
HOMETOWN: Cashiers, North Carolina
CURRENT LOCATION: Cashiers, North Carolina
AMBITIONS: To play more music for more people
TURN-OFFS: Requests for “Wagon Wheel”
TURN-ONS: Rye whiskey
DREAM GIG: Austin City Limits
FAVORITE LYRIC: “Blonde haired mama/Apartment two-thirteen/moves like a cobra snake/treats me like a king…” – “Blackjack Mama” by Townes
SONG I WISH I WROTE: “Elephant” by Jason Isbell. Three and a half minutes of beautiful, heartbreaking genius.
5 PEOPLE I’D MOST LIKE TO HAVE DINNER WITH: Johnny Cash, C.S. Lewis, Ray Charles, Jim Morrison, Townes
MY FAVORITE CONCERT EXPERIENCE: Merle Haggard in Cherokee, NC, 2014. He commands a stage like nobody’s business.
I WROTE THIS SONG BECAUSE… Most of my songs speak a different sort of yearning; loss, regret, that kind of thing. I wanted to write something light-hearted.. I think this song has just enough of that yearning or longing spirit without complaining about anything.
