ION INDIE MAGAZINE February 2016, Volume 21 | Page 48

it. It’s a cool way to bring people in and remind people that you are just a dude. In our case, we’re just 4 guys on the road. I like that. I don’t like the mystique around bands. So yeah, it gives you a direct line. You’re plugged right into the people who love your music, and you can communicate with them every day, if you want…and that’s a cool thing. I think it helps endear people to your quote/unquote “product”; to refer to it in a market sense. It gives people a sense of connection with what you’re doing, beyond what it used to be. LH: Tell me about the song “Greenhouse”…is there a backstory to that song? JL: People ask that a lot. Most of the songs are stories from our lives. “Greenhouse” is not. Greenhouse is a song my brother brought to the table, and it was originally supposed to go in a completely different direction. The ideas kept coming and pulling on this concept of losing someone, and the story being narrated from sort of beyond the grave. We kept going, “No, this feels like sacred territory,”--especially since we really haven’t experienced loss like that--certainly not in the way the song talks about. So we w