With the new record there were stressful things going on in your life. How did your music help you through that? Was the music more like therapy?
Linford: My sister has done a lot of therapy.
Karen: She’s gonna appreciate you telling the magazine that. (Laughs)
Linford: She always thought that I was doing the same kind of work with song writing, that she’s done. Music is very important to both of us and obviously the things that are going on in our lives is going to come out through the music. Get worked out of the music.
So has music helped you with personal things?
Linford: I think we write the music we need to hear. Sometimes song writing at its best works that way, we kinda write the stuff that we need to have around, and it’s not just a gig. It goes a little deeper, keeps us coming back.
You kind of answered it but who do you make music for?
Karin: I hate to sound poetic but I think for me it’s about the song. The song will kinda write itself. If I do my job and get out of the way, then inevitably I connect with it or I don\'t.
Linford: It would feel incomplete, I think, if there was never a connection to an audience, but it starts like Karen was saying, the song is just a thing that sort of has a life that you want to help develop and it tells you when it’s finished.
Your music has a spiritual feel to it, is it faith in your life that you bring to the music, or maybe just the connection between the listener and the music that could bring the two together?
Linford: I think just about all art is a cry or a prayer of some kind. Wanting to make a connection. I tend to connect with stuff that asks big questions. We don’t really have any agenda, there is spirituality, like when you feel a chemical reaction on your skin when you’re hearing a song, there’s just visible stuff going on, that’s part of the reason I\'m drawn to it.
Do you think there\'s a brighter future, now that you’re not with your former label Back Porch?
Karin: We\'ve been independent before, it’s an even more lucrative option. I think we\'ll just wait and see if something comes along. Were just gonna let them pursue us. We’ve done this long enough that we know how to survive and were not too eager. We just want to make a smart decision.
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