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ran with it,” said Fike, shrugging. “When
the next show tacked it on, I kind of said,
‘Well, this is a thing, now.’”
Holman joined the band in the late
2000s, working with Fike both on Keyton
material and as a member of The Record
Year, a punk band fronted by Fike with
Holman playing guitar. Keyton went on a
US tour through 14 states in two weeks,
including shows in Alabama, indicative of
the band’s work ethic, which Holman cites
as a foundation of the group.
“I played in other bands, but we never did
as much as Keyton and I did back in the
day,” said Holman.
Keyton’s history of playing original music
pulled Kasper and Medders into the
fray, both of whom answered a call on
Facebook for local musicians to round out
the lineup.
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“What attracted me to playing with
Keyton, I knew that whatever incarnation
I was playing with that day, I’d be playing
original music,” said Kasper.
Medders echoed the sentiment, saying,
“The songwriting impressed me; it’s really
easy to relate, seeing that each particular
is about something, there’s some basis for
it in real life.”
Though Kasper and Medders joined the
band only within the last year or so, the
two bring years of experience to the band.
The band gleefully discovers that they’ve
got 69 years of performing on stage to
their name when they combine their
pasts, eliciting laughs and jokes.
The new album ties into that sense of history; the record comes in a rough cardboard sleeve, imprinted with the band’s
name and a heart, tied with twine by
hand. Each song, says Fike, ties into a per-
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