3/31/2023 0 Comments King calloway world for twoI had a mutual friend with Jordan, and he suggested I go. So, I’ve always been pulled to Nashville. It has a really rustic, real dusty vibe to it. “Hearing what that sound had created for their records - I just thought the scene was so fascinating. “I realized so many bands from England had flown over to Nashville just to record their albums,” Dumas said. And, the extrapolation of country music to that song reflects the same improbable journey for several of King Calaway’s members to the genre. Like, the stuff that was out there.” Appropriately, the first song played and recorded by King Calaway was Stephen Stills’ “Love the One You’re With,” a 1970 California-rooted folk rock hit. “But, it wasn’t until I went to university, as an exchange student in L.A., that I really got into country music. I was the musician in the family, and I was always drawn to that. They talked about the music and the historic performance spaces. And, they would always just report back about how cool this city was. And, so they visited Nashville twice that I remember. “My aunt and uncle are huge country music fans. “I think my earliest recollection, or understanding, of Nashville, and it being a part of the musical conversation, was with my cousins and my family,” said Dumas, from his parents’ home in Gibraltar. Jervis has been quoted as saying they are out to “put the ‘band’ back in boy band.” The “one direction” part of that equation, it turns out, was to bring everyone to Nashville in hopes of building the needed chemistry. It is the centralizing force, and they are excellent musicians. The differentiator here is that they’ve taken the boy band paradigm to a different space - the Nashville space. Katz and Deaton conducted a worldwide search for the members of the new project, which was described then as “the Eagles meet One Direction.” Okay. King Calaway was formed in 2018, the brainchild of Zach Katz, the former BMG president, and the older Deaton. Founding member Jordan Harvey, no longer with the band, hails from Scotland. Jervis is a Delaware native, another lead vocalist Simon Dumas, who also plays piano and guitar, is from Gibraltar - yes, Gibraltar - bassist Austin Luther grew up in Minnesota, lead guitarist Caleb Miller is an Ohio native, and drummer Chris Deaton is the son of Nashville producer Robert Deaton. It’s tough.” Perhaps the members of King Calaway understand the effect of the virus in a global sense, more than most, because of their disparate makeup. And, on top of that, realizing the shows we played in the past year. PHOTO: ALEX BERGER “I’ve just missed it so much.
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