Most of Young Lungs was written last August right before we went on an east coast tour. We had to borrow Blake's parent's SUV and bought a 1970's U-Hual trailer for pretty cheap and painted it white. Though it held up pretty good for us, it broke down a few months later in downtown New York while being borrowed by a friend of ours. You can imagine the mess.
That friend (victim) was Mikey Allred who ended up producing and mastering Young Lungs. As far as his talents go with producing music, he's a miracle worker. We used so many different instruments, and recorded in such a brutally quick way we knew the end product was going to be rough, but we wanted it that way. We just needed someone to reel it all in. Jonathan, Blake and I had played with Mikey's old band in the gym of a condemned high school in Jamestown, Tennessee in 2003. Looking back now I would have never guessed we'd be working together on a record in Murfreesboro in 2008. Life sure has a strange way of circling back on you.
Every song on Young Lungs started as a folk song. Some of them, like Signal Fire, were written as early as June last year. The album deals with a pretty central theme, which is simply leaving and staying gone. I know it's something everyone deals with and Young Lungs was just my take on it. Jonathan, Blake and I might as well be brothers. We started playing music together in 2001. Mike was the first musician in a long time I felt really fit with the three of us. Not to mention he's a much better guitar player than me. Once Rebecca joined Ribbonpigeon in July of last year, I felt really good about our band. Still do.
Young Lungs is going to be released by Sophomore Lounge Records out of Chicago in May. It's about time.
-Kent Eugene Goolsby
Interview from April 2008
From Young Lungs DVD:
Modern Men
Signal Fire
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